Submissions

Emerge Women & Children’s Support Network welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor which is investigating how the family violence system has changed since the Royal Commission.

Emerge has joined forces with other family violence services to comment on the draft national plan to reduce violence against women.

Emerge is contributing to a Victoria-wide submission into a national plan to reduce violence against women and children.

In its submission to the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor, Emerge has highlighted many gaps and emerging trends that have been exposed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Emerge has called for raft of measures to be introduced as part of its submission to the Victorian Government’s homelessness inquiry. It has set out seven priorities ranging from a public education campaign about homelessness and family violence to explain the link through to calling for an improved Safe at Home strategy so that women and children’s right to stay at home after family violence is viewed as the norm. Paula Westhead, Emerge ...