Planned Area of Action
Area of Action 14
Improve inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication.
Responsibility
Lead |
Other |
|---|---|
| MSD and Justice | FVFG |
Action details
Address identified barriers to inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication at all levels24; and continue to establish and/or promote protocols, guidelines and systems between relevant agencies and service providers nationally, regionally and locally for information sharing and co-ordination of services. As part of this work, review the impact of:
- relevant legislation, particularly the operation of the Privacy Act 1993 and Public Finance Act 1989 on inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication;
- existing funding, contracting, reporting and compliance models on cross-sectoral co-ordination, collaboration and communication, with the aim of streamlining the funding and contracting processes; and
- existing systems, including information technology and data-matching, on inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication.
Link to goals and objectives
Goals 2 & 5. Objectives 2(iv), 2(vi), 5(ii).
Rationale
Family violence prevention requires effective co-ordination, collaboration and communication between government and non-government organisations at national, regional and community levels. At present, there appear to be a number of barriers to achieving this, such as the perceived competitive, confusing and time-consuming nature of existing funding and contracting arrangements.
Enhancing and streamlining national systems and processes and establishing and/or promoting protocols, guidelines and/or systems between relevant agencies at all levels, should encourage inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication and result in a more effective and holistic approach to family violence prevention. There would also be a positive flow-on effect to the delivery of broader crime prevention activities through improved co-ordination and collaboration between government and community agencies25.
Preliminary targets
- To have addressed identified barriers to inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication by June 2004.
- To have improved co-ordination of service delivery nationally, regionally and locally by June 2006.
Preliminary measures
- Scoping and timeline for co-ordination project completed.
- Relevant legislation and existing national processes, guidelines and systems are reviewed and recommendations for enhancements are made (if needed) according to the timeline.
- Recommendations are implemented where relevant.
- Feedback from service providers and local communities, following the implementation of recommendations (where relevant) and at the end of the five-year timeframe, indicates an overall improvement in inter-agency co-ordination, collaboration and communication.
24. For example, policy, planning, training, service development and delivery.
25. This has been identified as a key element of the Crime Reduction Strategy.
