Women’s Safety and Violence Prevention within the Department of Justice and Attorney-General (the department) is undertaking a program of work to strengthen data collection and analysis across the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV) service system, including government agencies and funded service providers.

This initiative is part of the Data Insights Roadmap, which comprises six streams of work and represents a program of short, medium and longer-term initiatives. Across the six streams, there is a focus on building capacity and capability of the DFSV service sector.

To support the DFSV service system, the department has funded QCOSS to deliver a range of data strategy and data capability uplift activities. QCOSS will be delivering activities that aim to build and strengthen the data capability for department funded DFSV services staff and DFSV organisations, as well as to support and uplift the data capability internally within the Department’s Women’s Safety, and Victims and Community Support, and the Investment and Commissioning teams.

Throughout the lifetime of this initiative, resources will become available through this hub, including webinars, information, and templates. Find out more about the DFSV Data Insights Initiative.

Find out more about the Queensland Government’s response to the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce recommendations.

QCOSS Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Data Insights network

As the Queensland community services sector’s peak body, QCOSS delivers a year-round research and advocacy program to deliver change on structural social issues and to promote the work and needs of the sector.

The purpose of the DFSV Data Insights Network is to:

• Improve the data maturity of the DFSV service sector to ensure there is an understanding of and commitment to the benefits of adopting an insights driven approach
• Ensure sector uptake of the Data Insights Roadmap resources are monitored and supported across the DFSV service sector and contribute to service responses that are underpinned by integration, robust information and evidence-based practice.
• Enable the DFSV service sector to be positioned to enact people, process and system changes as required through business readiness support.

For more information about the DFSV Data Insights Network contact: [email protected]

Resources and links

QCOSS

• Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Data Insights Initiative – Guide for Managers

Queensland Government

• Updates about the initiative
• Domestic, family and sexual violence system monitoring and evaluation framework
• Response to the Women’s Safety and Justice Taskforce recommendations