{"id":5379,"date":"2020-03-05T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2020-03-05T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T18:06:25","slug":"increased-funding-vital-for-improving-police-responses-to-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/05\/increased-funding-vital-for-improving-police-responses-to-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased funding vital for improving police responses to domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Senate Leader and spokesperson on Women, Senator Larissa Waters, has written to Minister for Women Marise Payne ahead of tomorrow\u2019s meeting of Women\u2019s Safety Ministers asking for additional funding and national coordination to improve frontline police services available to people reporting domestic and family violence.<br \/>\n\u201cWomen who have survived domestic violence won\u2019t seek police help if they think they will be disbelieved or exposed to more danger,\u201d she said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe reported cases of leaking survivors\u2019 details, failures to prosecute, unfortunate remarks and under-enforcement of DVO breaches are extremely concerning and show more police training and cultural change is required within the Queensland Police Service.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Federal government can\u2019t continue to say police matters are a state issue, when they could improve frontline police services on family violence through federal funding for training, enforcement and harmonisation.<br \/>\n\u201cWomen\u2019s services also tell us of the urgent need for more funding for the Family Court, prevention and early intervention programs, specialist legal and support services, crisis accommodation and housing support to improve the family law system.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need an urgent investment of $5.3 billion for a new 10-year\u00a0National Partnership Agreement on Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women between state and Federal governments.<br \/>\n\u201cGovernments must listen when these front line services say more funding will make a difference and invest to fix the domestic violence crisis.\u201d<br \/>\nView the full letter here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/larissawaters\/photos\/a.420965439098\/10158087809434099\/?type=3&amp;theater\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/larissawaters\/photos\/a.420965439098\/10158087809434099\/?type=3&amp;theater<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Senate Leader and spokesperson on Women, Senator Larissa Waters, has written to Minister for Women Marise Payne ahead of tomorrow\u2019s meeting of Women\u2019s Safety Ministers asking for additional funding and national coordination to improve frontline police services available to people reporting domestic and family violence. \u201cWomen who have survived domestic violence won\u2019t seek police &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/05\/increased-funding-vital-for-improving-police-responses-to-domestic-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increased funding vital for improving police responses to domestic violence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}