Meta-evaluation of existing interagency partnerships, collaboration,coordination and/or integrated interventions and service responses to violence against women: State of KNowledge paper

The current evidence base indicates that both victimsand perpetrators of domestic, family and sexualviolence have diverse and complex needs, frequentlyrequiring multiple interventions provided by a range ofcommunity-based services to better ensure immediateand ongoing safety for women (Rees & Silove, 2014).Government and professional recognition of thecomplexity of these women’s needs has acted as acatalyst for the growth in what is referred to in manyglobal Western jurisdictions as “integrated responses”(Coy, Lovett, & Kelly, 2008). Indeed, this intention isechoed in Time for action: The National Council’s planfor Australia to Reduce Violence Against Women ndTheir Children 2009–2021 (National Council to ReduceViolence against Women and their Children, 2009).At the planning level, The National Plan To ReduceViolence Against Women and Their Children (theNational Plan) states that its success “hinges on thesuccess of the sixth outcome area – that the entiresystem join seamlessly and all its parts work together”(Council of Australian Governments, 2011, p. 15)