National DFV Crisis x Frontline Services Funding

🗣⚠️ “How can you extend a program though and offer money and cash to women wanting to leave violent relationships, and not give more support to those frontline services who are then going to be dealing with those people?” … Excellent question from ABC News’, Lisa Millar 👏

📢 Women’s Legal Services across the country have been highlighting overwhelming demand on frontline services for years now – we are not funded appropriately to achieve the goals of the National Plan 🚩

Whilst we welcome funding announcements to expand ‘Escaping Violence Payments’, the effectiveness of these programs is dependent on specialist gendered services working with women at risk of domestic and family violence 🚨⚖️

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