This plan provides strategic direction and sets out focus areas for action across the continuum of prevention, early intervention, response, recovery and healing from domestic and family violence. It also recognises the need for an accountable, well-coordinated and evidence-based service system. It follows and builds on the NSW Blueprint for Reform, which was the state’s first whole-of-government strategy to address domestic and family violence.
The NSW Domestic and Family Violence Plan 2022–2027 has been informed by consultation with victim-survivors, frontline workers, non-government service providers, sector peak bodies and government agencies.
In this plan the NSW Government adopts the common definition of Domestic and Family Violence (DFV). This definition refers to DFV as ‘any behaviour in a domestic relationship, which is violent, threatening, coercive or controlling and causing a person to live in fear for their own or someone else’s safety. It is usually manifested as part of a pattern of ongoing controlling or coercive behaviour.’
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