Justice Sector Education Program Continuing Professional Development for Legal Practitioners on Coercive Control

Overview

The Australian Government is inviting organisations via a restricted process to apply to deliver services under Program 1.4 Justice Services from 2023-24 to 2026-27. The intended outcomes of the program are: increase the knowledge of justice sector officials  support the efficient and effective operation of the justice system. The objective of the grant opportunity is to build understanding and capability of legal practitioners around the fundamentals of family and domestic violence and its underpinning dynamic of coercive control. This will include case studies on the experiences of First Nations peoples and other vulnerable cohorts, and support engagement with victim-survivors and their families. The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are: development and delivery of a national online foundational e-Learning module for legal practitioners focused on identifying and responding to coercive control for the training to embed the National Principles to Address Coercive Control in Family and Domestic Violence (National Principles) as a common national foundation for legal practitioners the training package is designed to count towards annual continuing professional development (CPD) for legal practitioners to incentivise uptake.