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Family and Domestic Violence Unit
Department for Child Protection and
Family Support
Karen is Social Work trained
and has been in a policy
position with WA’s
Department for Child
protection and Family
Support for a year and a
half. Prior to moving to Perth
she spent a couple of years
as a trainer and advocate
with the Domestic Violence
Resource Centre Victoria
where she primarily
delivered training on the
Victorian equivalent of
CRARMF and Domestic
Violence and Technology.
Karen has also worked in
direct domestic violence
outreach service delivery
and program management at
the St Kilda Crisis Services
and Women’s Health West,
both in Melbourne.
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Family and Domestic Violence
Common Risk Assessment and
Risk Management Framework
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Family and Domestic Violence Unit
Department for Child Protection and Family Support
Introduction
Department for Child Protection & Family Support,
Family & Domestic Violence Unit
• Responsible for:
– Identifying, informing and monitoring the development of
government policy
– Coordinating a central and regional across government approach
– Facilitating community partnerships
• Informed by the Family and Domestic Violence Senior
Officers’ Group
• Working toward achieving outcomes set out in the Western
Australia’s Family and Domestic Violence Prevention Strategy
to 2022
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The CRARMF
The WA Common Risk Assessment and Risk
Management Framework (CRARMF) is:
“A standardised response to identifying, assessing, and
responding to family and domestic violence”
It is intended to provide a common practice framework for
screening, risk assessment, risk management and risk
monitoring for all service providers in WA (mainstream,
statutory and specialist)
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Why CRARMF
Using CRARMF assists us to work toward:
1. Eliminating service gaps
2. Keeping responses client and safety focused
3. Supporting inter-agency collaboration and therefore
an integrated response to high risk cases
4. Common language, common understandings
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CRARMF key features
• CRARMF sits across the entire human service sector
• Common principles including a shared commitment
to safety, perpetrator accountability and risk
management
• It is a common framework not a common tool
• Response continuum
• Minimum standards
• In undertaking this we are making a commitment
to workforce development
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Response continuum
Service types and their role in the response continuum
Mainstream Services
Legal/Statutory Services
Specialist Family and Domestic Violence Services
SCREENING
RISK ASSESSMENT
RISK MANAGEMENT
RISK MONITORING
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Screening
Minimum Standard for Screening
• All agencies will screen for FDV as a part of their
standard intake procedures
• Providers must be familiar with ‘key indicators’ of FDV
• Take all necessary steps to ensure the immediate safety
of the victim & any accompanying children
• FDV part of the agency’s core business steps:
– conduct a risk assessment, safety planning, referral and case
management
• FDV not part of the agency’s core business steps:
– referral for a risk assessment to a specialist agency
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Risk assessment
Minimum standard for risk assessment
• Agencies that have a role in responding to FDV are
required to use a common approach to risk assessment
which includes:
– victim assessment of the risk
– consideration of key indicators
– professional judgement
• Must have a solid understanding of FDV & factors
that affect risk
• Ensure immediate safety of the victim & any
accompanying children
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Risk management
Minimum standard for risk management
• Personal Safety Planning
– An integrated agency response with the victim/s to design,
implement and monitor a personal safety plan considering:
• safety in the home, workplace and community;
• existing safety strategies that are working;
• safety for the support network e.g., does including them in the woman’s
safety plan place them at risk?
• Planning for the safety of the adult and child victim
– An integrated agency response to engage perpetrator:
• Multi-agency Safety Planning
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Risk management
Multi-agency case management
• Critical feature of an effective integrated
response working toward child and
adult victim safety and perpetrator
accountability through:
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sharing information
developing comprehensive risk assessments
planning strategies to mitigate risks
creating transparency and accountability
between agencies
• MACM Guidelines can be found at www.cpfs.wa.gov.au
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CRARMF 2 - 2015
• Additional considerations in minimum standards for
working with perpetrators focussing on safety of the adult
and child victims.
• Agencies will be guided by two new minimum standards:
– Information sharing
• All agencies share information to support referral, risk assessment
and risk management.
– Referral
• All agencies use warm referral processes to support adult and child
victims and/or the person using violence to access a service
response.
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Information sharing
Information sharing in WA is governed through the
following pieces of legislation:
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The Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth)
The Children and Community Services Act 2004
The Restraining Orders Act 1997
The Sentence Administration Act 2003
Information sharing considerations:
• Relevancy of information
• Contextualised to high risk – lethal behaviours/serious harm
• Consider the risks i.e. perpetrator accessing the info
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Information sharing
Disclosure without consent:
The WA operating environment (legislation, protocols etc.)
dictates that information should only be shared if the client has
provided their consent, except in the following circumstances:
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A case is assessed to be high risk
A crime has been committed or is going to be committed
It is believed a child is likely to suffer significant harm
A client is in need of urgent medical or psychiatric care.
These exceptions are created through the concept of ‘duty of
care’ that if an individual is at risk of harm or at risk of harming
someone else, we are duty bound to share that information
with an appropriate responder.
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Duty of Care
• Most agencies have the concept of duty of care
incorporated into their confidentiality policy (usually
framed as exceptions)
• Breach of confidentiality is set within the context of
preventing serious injury/lethal harm where high risk is
identified
• Exceptions to confidentiality usually include harm to
self (suicide), harm to others (threats or disclosure of a
criminal act) and harm to children
• Breaching confidentiality is a process that involves
consultation and serious consideration of risk factors
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FDV Response Teams
• The Family and Domestic Violence Response Teams
(FDVRT) are a partnership between WA Police, CPFS
and non-government domestic violence services.
• The FDVRT aims to improve the safety of child and adult
victims of family and domestic violence through a
collaborative approach that focuses on timely and early
intervention following a police call out to a domestic
violence incident.
• They are operating state wide in all CPFS districts.
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Day to day
• CPFS and the CRS receive domestic violence incident reports
(DVIRs) from WA Police, via the triage application.
• They individually look over the DVIRs then come together for a
triage meeting to work out which families need a response and
who is best placed to provide the service.
• Decisions are underpinned by a risk assessment using
the CRARMF.
• Decisions are recorded on the ‘decisions page’ of the interface.
• Coordinate joint responses including home visits.
• Work with other agencies in the community to
multi-agency case manage high risk cases.
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Purpose of triage
• To identify and assess risk (all partners contribute risk relevant
information from their respective agency’s contacts with the
family) to decide:
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If a response is required for this family, if so what kind?
Who is best placed to provide this response?
• Avoid duplication of service responses.
• Support earlier intervention with families to prevent escalation
to a child protection matter.
• Coordinate joint responses when required.
• Identify and respond to high risk cases.
• Share risk and responsibility for families experiencing FDV.
• Feedback loop i.e. children not identified on the DVIR.
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Perpetrator accountability
Men’s Domestic Violence Helpline
• A Department service, based at the Crisis Care Unit
• Started in 1998 as part of the Freedom From Fear
campaign.
• Aim is to enhance safety of women and children through
engaging perpetrators:
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Clear focus on responsibility and accountability
Provides education (i.e. discuss impact of their violence on children)
• State wide - 24 hours / 7 days phone counselling and
referral.
• Warm referrals to Men’s Behaviour Change Programs
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