The South Australian government resource, develop and implement statewide awareness and empowerment campaigns to increase community awareness of the nature and impacts of domestic, family and sexual violence, and empower people to respond to and prevent that violence. The campaigns should be co-designed with Aboriginal, CALD and LGBTQIA+ communities, people with disability, older people, and children and young people (with a specific campaign with and for children under Guardianship), and evaluated to ensure that they are targeted and effective.

The South Australian government resource, develop, implement and maintain 2 standalone government websites to provide information for victim-survivors, people supporting victim-survivors and people using violence, with one targeted at, and co-designed with, children and
young people. The websites should:

a. contain information that is clear, accessible and available in multiple languages, and includes audio and visual resources
b. provide clear explanations of the nature and impacts of domestic, family and sexual violence, including coercive and controlling behaviour
c. provide information about how to seek help, the services that are available and the supports that they offer
d. provide information on intervention orders, including how to apply for private intervention orders, the conditions that can be imposed on a person using violence, and the process for finalising an order through the courts
e. consider the use of generative AI informed by Australia’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics Principles
f. be continuously reviewed to ensure that information and links are up to date.

The development and implementation of thewebsites should be accompanied by a public marketing and engagement campaign to promote the websites and ensure communitywide awareness of their existence and purpose. Consideration should also be given to the development and availability of accessible and inclusive resources for people who do not have access to the internet.

Existing South Australian and federal professional regulatory frameworks should be:

a. reviewed by South Australian and federal professional regulators with a view to mandating and/or promoting domestic, family and sexual violence awareness to the people within their regulatory framework (including through codes of conduct and ongoing professional development requirements)
b. reviewed by the South Australian and Australian governments to determine whether any legislative changes could be made to better equip regulators to embed awareness of domestic, family and sexual violence in their regulatory activities.

The South Australian government develop and implement a South Australian community of practice to bring together state and federal regulators, including the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, to facilitate collective learning, knowledge sharing and collaboration about domestic, family and sexual violence.

The Commissioner for Public Sector Employment undertake a program of work, including the development of relevant policies and procedures, to increase the public sector’s awareness of domestic, family and sexual violence and of the services available to support a person experiencing violence or a person using violence, including the use of domestic, family and sexual violence leave.

The South Australian government work with the South Australian university and vocational education and training sector (including the Skills Commission and TAFE SA) to identify pathways to embed domestic, family and sexual violence content within relevant higher education and vocational education and training qualifications.

The Commissioner of Police develop and implement a comprehensive and ongoing domestic, family and sexual violence training program for all sworn officers and any relevant staff members. This training must:

a. be designed alongside the specialist training program (see Recommendation 38) to ensure consistency with that program’s evidence-based and trauma-informed content
b. deepen officers’ understanding of the dynamics of domestic, family and sexual violence, its impacts across different communities, and how to recognise it and respond to it accordingly
c. equip officers to identify patterns of coercive control and behaviours of people using violence
d. equip police to provide child-focused responses
e. strengthen the ability to identify the primary aggressor and avoid misidentification
f. be embedded into professional practice through consistent, repetitive delivery
g. be accessible via flexible delivery modes (online and in person) that are designed to be interactive, not procedural
h. be backed by strong, visible leadership and supervision from senior officers.

The Commissioner of Police develop and implement an intensive, ongoing training program for family violence investigators and any other workers who require specialist knowledge of domestic, family and sexual violence. This training program is to be designed in collaboration with a suitably qualified provider with demonstrated expertise in developing specialist training, to ensure the program is effective, evidence based and trauma informed, as well as intersectional, inclusive and culturally relevant.

The training program must:

a. be informed by the Lived Experience Advisory Networks and the domestic, family and sexual violence sector
b. provide specialist knowledge regarding the dynamics of domestic, family and sexual violence and how it can present differently in different communities
c. provide practical tools to identify and manage trauma responses
d. address the complexities of coercive control and the different behaviours and tactics of people using violence
e. strengthen the ability to identify the primary aggressor and avoid misidentification
f. build cultural capability
g. strengthen understanding of interagency intersections – particularly with child protection and family law systems
h. equip investigators to provide child-focused responses.

The Minister for Police progress amendments to regulation 89 of the Police Regulations 2014 (SA) to require the Commissioner of Police to report on the nature and scope of all domestic, family and sexual violence–related education and training in the annual report mandated under section 75 of the Police Act 1998 (SA).

The South Australian government resource the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Commissioner of Police to collaboratively develop and implement an operating model for the investigation and prosecution of domestic, family and sexual violence offences, based on the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service national operating models. The model should:

a. be evidence based, either through reliance on existing evidence or in collaboration with relevant academics and researchers
b. ensure that work conducted in partnership with police occurs as early as possible in an investigation
c. keep in mind the levers available to police and prosecutors to mitigate risk to victim-survivors,
including the use of intervention orders and bail conditions
d. focus on a suspect-centric approach to investigation and prosecution
e. be informed by input from the Lived Experience Advisory Networks
f. develop publicly available guidance documents on myths and misconceptions about domestic, family and sexual violence and how to address them
g. require ongoing evidence-based and trauma-informed training for prosecutors and investigators
h. consider how the model and training applies to barristers briefed by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
1. build in reviews of the model to ensure that it is continuously updated to reflect new evidence.

The South Australian government resource the Courts Administration Authority to develop and implement regular and consistent education and training on the nature and dynamics of domestic, family and sexual violence, along with any changes to law and practice, for all judicial officers and court staff as appropriate. Education and training programs should:

a. be tailored to the audience and their particular role within the courts
b. be trauma informed, evidence based and culturally appropriate
c. recognise the intersectionality of domestic, family and sexual violence
d. include a focus on:
i. the identification and assessment of risk, taking into account the evidence base used in the development of the South Australian Risk Assessment and Management Framework
ii. coercive control and ongoing patterns of abuse and how to recognise and respond to it within the context of court proceedings
iii. domestic, family and sexual violence myths and misconceptions
iv. people using violence and identification of the primary aggressor
e. be flexible and accessible and include online modules, as well as in-person training
f. require interaction and critical thinking, as opposed to a tick-box exercise
g. be supported by ongoing supervision and leadership by heads of jurisdiction and senior judicial officers.

The South Australian government, through the Attorney-General:
a. progress regulations, in consultation with the Chief Justice, to confer the development and implementation, and subsequent monitoring, of a mandatory judicial education and training framework on the Judicial Conduct Commissioner pursuant to section 36 of the Judicial Conduct Commissioner Act 2015 (SA)
b. resource the Judicial Conduct Commissioner to develop the framework in consultation with the heads of jurisdiction.

The Attorney-General implement Recommendation 10 of Equal Opportunity SA’s 2024 Review of Harassment in the South Australian Legal Profession to develop and publish a protocol, determination or framework with clear criteria for the appointment of all judicial officers, including domestic, family and sexual violence legal practice experience or awareness.

The Chief Justice implement Recommendation 11 of Equal Opportunity SA’s 2024 Review of Harassment in the South Australian Legal Profession to amend the appointment criteria for Senior Counsel.

The South Australian government design and implement a model to fund the development of local induction programs by local domestic, family and sexual violence service providers, to be provided at semi-regular intervals throughout the year to all new frontline government employees to a region.