Apart from Tasmania, Western Australia is the only State without a quality assurance and improvement process for specialist family and domestic violence services.
The lack of quality standards results in service standard inconsistencies, individual services utilising precious resources to create their own standards and practices, the potential for poor performance and the risk of causing further harm to victim-survivors and a lack of accountability and monitoring of perpetrator’s behaviour patterns.
The Code will provide an overarching framework for specialist family and domestic violence service provision with principles to be determined during co-design with the specialist family and domestic violence sector.
The purpose of The Code of Practice is to articulate principles and standards to guide consistent quality service provision for services that are working towards reducing risk and creating safety for women and children experiencing violence.
If you wish to learn more, contact us at codeofpractice@cwsw.org.au
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The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians and first peoples of Australia. We recognise the impacts of colonisation and dispossession and the contemporary disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing is committed to working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and men to end violence against their women and children in Western Australia.
The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing acknowledges the strength and resilience of adults, children and young people who have experienced family and domestic violence. We pay respects to those who did not survive and acknowledge the families, friends and communities who have lost loved ones to this preventable and widespread issue. We are committed to ensuring responses to family and domestic violence are informed by lived experience.
The Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing recognises, welcomes and respects people of diverse gender, sex and sexuality. We are committed to greater inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ).
