The NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) wants to know how your organisation currently shares information, what information you need to properly do your work and to assess whether NSW’s current information sharing frameworks for domestic and family violence (DFV) are fit-for-purpose.
We are reviewing laws, policies, and procedures that allow information to be shared about domestic and family violence (DFV). This includes considering Part 13A of the Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 (NSW), which underpins the Safer Pathway program.
Safer Pathway is a NSW Government multi-agency program that supports victim-survivors of DFV across NSW. It is available to any person 16 years or older who has experienced DFV in the state. Within Safer Pathway, relevant government and non-government agencies work together to identify people experiencing DFV, and to offer them support to increase their safety. A key component of Safer Pathway is the information sharing legislation that creates exceptions to NSW privacy laws to allow service providers to share information about DFV victim-survivors and perpetrators in defined circumstances.
Tell us what you think
DCJ wants to make sure that relevant agencies and service providers ("organisations") can share the information they need to support people who experience DFV and keep them safe, hold people who use violence to account, provide supports to change their behaviour, all the while respecting people’s rights to privacy.
We want to find out whether change is needed, not monitor compliance with current laws.
Have your say by completing a survey below by Friday 7 March 2025.
Your feedback will inform our ongoing work to improve information sharing between agencies and services in responding to DFV.
