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In addition to the monitoring activities undertaken for the biannual progress reports, the Independent Implementation Supervisor (IIS) is also continuing to engage with the Queensland community more broadly to understand how the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce reforms are being implemented, where Queenslanders are observing impact and to highlight areas of opportunity moving forward.
The ACWA's national conference will be held in Sydney in June 2024 and will examine policies and practices that are making a difference in the lives of vulnerable children and families. The conference will bring together child and family welfare experts, caseworkers, sector leaders and child protection advocates from around Australia.
The Forum brought together staff from government and non-government services across Queensland to learn, share, inspire and discuss how we can work together to improve prevention initiatives and system responses to domestic and family violence for First Nations communities.
The Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council hosts an annual breakfast as an opportunity for Queenslanders to show their commitment to ending all forms of domestic and family violence, connect with others and learn about the new laws and programs in place to address this issue. This year's breakfast focused on the behaviours that contribute to coercive control and featured stories from victim-survivors of domestic and family violence from the Love ≠ Control campaign.
The Roundtable brought together experts nationally to collaborate on how to advance the goal of ending violence against women and children in one generation. The IIS participated in discussions about the current efforts to collect data and measure what matters in people’s lives to build a shared understanding of how to measure impact across the country.
The Forum explored what is currently working to get women to a safer home, the constraints women experience, and the opportunities to improve housing responses for women who are at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness. The IIS listened to stakeholders talk about the reform program underway in Queensland and joined a panel presentation to discuss the role the IIS will play in overseeing the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce reforms.
Conversations That Matter provided an opportunity for senior executives to come together to discuss the challenges across critical social services such as domestic and family violence, First Nations health and wellbeing, child safety, youth justice, mental health and homelessness.
