Child sexual exploitation and abuse
Addressing the glaring gap in Victorian CSA grooming offences
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Rectify the absence of a grooming offence within child sexual offences legislation applicable to 16 and 17 year olds under care, supervision or authority to protect older children at risk of predation
Effective funding models for supporting recovery after sexual violence
Groups for girls! Primary prevention with girls and gender diverse young people
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We need early intervention and primary prevention with girls and gender diverse young people focused on empowerment, rights, breaking down stereotypes and expectations, resisting online messages.
Some form of qualification from going through police and court process
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Going through the police and court process takes a lot of time and dedication that isn't recognised in community, there should be a formal qualification to help towards future pathways
Restorative Justice for student to student sexual harm in schools
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Support a partnership between the Open Circle (Centre for innovative justice) and the specialist sexual assault sector to be able to provide restorative justice for sexual harm in schools.
Forensic medical examinations
Make forensic medical exams part of the public system
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VIC is the only state where forensic medical exams are controlled by a private org, VIFM. The gov should set up a forensic medicine service in the public health system to expand access to FMEs.
Self-Collected Forensic DNA Swabs
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This proposal explores a trauma-informed, survivor-centred self-collection forensic swab to provide survivors with autonomy during the process of preserving evidence after sexual assault.
Intersectional discrimination
Justice system responses – police, prosecutions and courts
Bring TIKA NZ to Victoria
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https://www.tika.org.nz/ Tika’s vision is a world where taking legal action against repeat perpetrators is accessible and transformative, reducing offending rates and creating safer communities.
Create a panel that reviews police and prosecution decisions not to proceed
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Reports of sexual violence often don't proceed to a conviction in the criminal justice system. We should review the decisions being made not investigate, charge or prosecute to understand why.
Addressing the glaring gap in Victorian CSA grooming offences
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Rectify the absence of a grooming offence within child sexual offences legislation applicable to 16 and 17 year olds under care, supervision or authority to protect older children at risk of predation
Sexual abuse in institutional settings
End strip searching in prisons
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Strip searching is a from of systemic sexual violence that is inflicted on women, non binary and gender diverse prisoners who are often victim survivors of sexual violence. It must be ended.
Restorative Justice for student to student sexual harm in schools
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Support a partnership between the Open Circle (Centre for innovative justice) and the specialist sexual assault sector to be able to provide restorative justice for sexual harm in schools.
Addressing the glaring gap in Victorian CSA grooming offences
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Rectify the absence of a grooming offence within child sexual offences legislation applicable to 16 and 17 year olds under care, supervision or authority to protect older children at risk of predation
Sexual violence in the context of family violence
Some form of qualification from going through police and court process
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Going through the police and court process takes a lot of time and dedication that isn't recognised in community, there should be a formal qualification to help towards future pathways
Technology-facilitated abuse
Groups for girls! Primary prevention with girls and gender diverse young people
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We need early intervention and primary prevention with girls and gender diverse young people focused on empowerment, rights, breaking down stereotypes and expectations, resisting online messages.