Ms SCRYMGOUR - 2006-10-11
Ms SCRYMGOUR (Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage): Madam Speaker, yesterday during Question Time I responded to a question from the Leader of the Opposition about the Domestic Violence Data Collection report. I undertook to get back to the Leader of the Opposition with further information. I apologise that this was not done by the end of Question Time yesterday as I indicated. The question actually falls across a number of agencies, now that I have had a look at her question in the whole, however, I will provide the information where I can.
The Office of Women’s Policy has a Domestic Violence Data Collection Project. This was the first coordinated approach to collecting information from government and non-government agencies in Australia. The problem identified early was the difficulties caused by a number of different agencies that have different roles in the domestic and family violence area and use different methods for collecting and reporting data. Ten or more agencies and organisations can be reporting domestic violence data at any time.
A final report has now been produced. It has been reviewed by the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Community Services, Police, and by the Domestic and Family Violence Advisory Council. The report makes a number of recommendations which require me to sit down with my colleagues who have a stake in this issue. The bottom line from the Office of Women’s Policy view is that we need to ensure regular reporting to government of meaningful data collected in a consistent way.
The Leader of the Opposition needs to bear in mind that this is a report about data collection. It is not an analysis of data or statistics on domestic violence. The report will be published and made available when I have considered its recommendations in more detail.
The Office of Women’s Policy has a Domestic Violence Data Collection Project. This was the first coordinated approach to collecting information from government and non-government agencies in Australia. The problem identified early was the difficulties caused by a number of different agencies that have different roles in the domestic and family violence area and use different methods for collecting and reporting data. Ten or more agencies and organisations can be reporting domestic violence data at any time.
A final report has now been produced. It has been reviewed by the Department of Justice, Department of Health and Community Services, Police, and by the Domestic and Family Violence Advisory Council. The report makes a number of recommendations which require me to sit down with my colleagues who have a stake in this issue. The bottom line from the Office of Women’s Policy view is that we need to ensure regular reporting to government of meaningful data collected in a consistent way.
The Leader of the Opposition needs to bear in mind that this is a report about data collection. It is not an analysis of data or statistics on domestic violence. The report will be published and made available when I have considered its recommendations in more detail.
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