This year, Victoria Police partnered with Bayside Peninsula Integrated Family Violence Partnership to develop a more collaborative approach to responding to family violence incidents. The partnership enabled discussions between key organisations in the family violence sector, including through facilitated workshops held throughout the year.

The main goal of the partnership has been to better understand how community service sector organisations and Victoria Police can work together to support victims. Senior Sergeant Duncan Bartley – one of our Family Violence Training Officers – says the only way we can effectively prevent, respond and recover from family violence is to work collaboratively.

“We all want the same outcomes – for victim-survivors to be safe and have the opportunity to live free from violence, and for perpetrators to be held to account.”

“Feedback from representatives across the organisations has been overwhelmingly positive, with many commenting on the benefit of having a deeper insight into how Victoria Police functions and where opportunities present for greater collaboration.

The response from participants has been overwhelmingly positive, with many grateful for gaining a deeper insight into how Victoria Police work across the family violence space.

View the Facebook post here

The Bayside Peninsula Integrated Family Violence Partnership acknowledges the tragic loss of life and harm caused by the Bondi violence. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and everyone affected, including the emergency services and community members who responded and continue to support the victims.

Support is available at Lifeline

Emerging Minds: Supporting infants, children and families during disaster

For the BPA Jewish Community go to JCCM

Imagine having prevention funded at the scale of the problem. What a great quote from the panel at Big Hart’s screening of It Starts with Us.

We need to collectively advocate for increased funding in prevention and early intervention. And to specifically fund fantastic programs like those run by Big hART because the impact is real. Just ask any of the young people involved with It Starts with Us.

On Thursday, 27th November 2025 the BPIFVP’s PSA, Administrator, Lived Experience Advisor, and one of our members all attended RMIT’s forum in Melbourne. Some were participants and others presenters, but we all took away so much about reflections on the last nine years since the RCFV.

RMIT runs a Graduate Certificate in Family & Domestic Violence that may be suitable for you or your staff.

One of our gifts at the BPIFVP Networking Expo in November was Conor’s book The Shadow that Follows.

Purchase a copy today for your family, local primary school, or for your clients.

https://www.conorpall.com/book

The Partnership was joined by over 90 people from numerous organisations across the Bayside Peninsula on Friday, 14th November 2025.

Resource files from the Expo:

• BPIFVP resources
• Stallholders
• Research
• Derrimut Weelam Gathering Place

The Victorian Government is working towards a future where every person is safe, respected and free from violence. To guide this important work, the Victorian Government has launched Until every Victorian is safe: Third rolling action plan to end family and sexual violence 2025-2027.

This plan supports the implementation of the 10-year family violence reform plan, Ending Family Violence: Victoria’s  Plan for Change.

Until every Victorian is safe explains what the Victorian Government will do to prevent and respond to family and sexual violence. It outlines 106 actions, which all parts of the Victorian Government must work together to achieve over the next three years.

Family violence remains widespread across Victoria. It is fuelled by gender inequality and harmful gender stereotypes, in a society where women are still treated as unequal to men on many levels. Ending family violence involves everyone. We all have a role to play – at home, at work and in our communities.

Until every Victorian is safe includes four focus areas that explain the Victorian Government’s approach:

• Whole of person– understanding that everyone has different needs, making sure that our actions consider people’s unique experiences and needs.
• Whole of family– recognising that families can be both a source of harm and safety, meaning that we need to understand a person’s family context when providing support.
• Whole of community– encouraging people to challenge the attitudes and systems that drive family and sexual violence, including by preventing violence in places where Victorians live, work, study and play.
• Whole of system– refining laws, services, and processes to work together to more effectively prevent and respond to family and sexual violence. 

Extensive stakeholder engagement shaped this plan, bringing diverse voices and experiences into practical actions.

• For more information about Until every Victorian is safe and what the Victorian Government has committed to, visit www.vic.gov.au/family-violence-reform-rolling-action-plan-2025-2027
• To hear from some of our key stakeholders about their priorities for the next stage of reform, watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zIO5MQNFmg