Strategy to strengthen responses to persons using domestic and family violence

A new Domestic and Family Violence Reform Strategy (the Strategy) is being developed, which will include a focus on people using violence as one of its key pillars. The Strategy will reset the Queensland Government’s direction for DFV reform over the next ten years to deliver whole of community responses, integrated services, equitable service access statewide and a quality data and system performance approach. It will set the foundations for delivering effective and sustainable change, informed by contemporary evidence and lived experience.

The Responses to Persons using violence pillar will aim to address DFV at its source, by focusing on those who use violence and coercive control. People using DFV will be held accountable for their harmful behaviours and provided with opportunities to stop their abuse. Sustained attention on people who use violence is critical to breaking patterns of abuse and coercive control. By prioritising accountability and providing greater access to behaviour change opportunities, this domain strengthens victim-survivor safety.