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Local Government Guide for Preventing Family Violence and All Forms of Violence Against Women

Local government is a key partner in the prevention of family violence and all forms of violence against women. Councils are well placed to influence community attitudes and behaviours as service providers, large local employers and municipal leaders.

The Local Government Guide for Preventing Family Violence and All Forms of Violence Against Women (the Guide) was developed by the Victorian Government in partnership with NOUS Group consultants, the MAV, and a co-design process with input from over 150 council representatives and sector partners.

The Guide was developed to build on key learnings from the Free from Violence Local Government Program which ran between 2018-2020, and is the foundation resource to support the next phase of the Program, 2022-2025.

Fifteen councils have received three-years funding from the Victorian Government to trial implementation of the Guide, however it has been designed and is available to assist all councils at an employee and elected representative level to understand what can be done to embed primary prevention of family violence in day-to-day activities, the workplace and in service delivery.

You can read the MAV's media statement on the realise of the guide (May 2023).

Local Government Guide for Preventing Family Violence and All Forms of Violence Against Women