While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.
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Articles on National Plan to end Violence against Women and Children
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We need not just an acknowledgement of children as victim-survivors in their own right but a commitment to boost resourcing of child-centred recovery support.
A new ten-year plan to end violence against women and children has some significant strengths, but it also has some deficits, and details are still to be released.
The findings are a stark reminder men’s violence against women is a national crisis and system reform is urgent.
There is a crisis in women’s safety but the commitments are piecemeal and some aren’t even new.
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer, University of Liverpool
