Ending violence submission

Australia will not end violence against women and children within a generation unless children move from the margins of policy to the centre of reform. 

That’s one of the key messages in our recent submission to the Review of the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022–2032

Children are citizens, rights holders and victim-survivors in their own right. 

Our submission calls for stronger investment in child-focused data, participation, recovery, healing and accountability measures to ensure children are visible, heard and supported across Australia's response to family, domestic and sexual violence. 

VCI believes that a significant gap remains between recognising children as victim-survivors in principle and responding to them as victim-survivors in practice. While children are increasingly visible in policy, they remain largely invisible in data collection, service design, funding priorities and outcome measurement. 

Australia still lacks comprehensive information about how many children experience family and domestic violence, the nature of their experiences, the supports they receive and the outcomes achieved. The National Plan itself acknowledges these limitations.

You can follow the link the read the full submission.