Experts say Australia must improve its front-line social services responses to reduce the impacts of large-scale disasters on vulnerable groups, according to a report released by Family Safety Victoria. Future-proofing Safety: Surfacing inequality and building service capacity for crisis-ready responses highlights the significant challenges for people who experienced or used family violence during COVID-19. Led by the Centre for Family Research and Evaluation at Drummond Street Services, RMIT University's Centre for Innovative Justice and the Australian Institute of Family Studies, the report presents a framework for how government, peak bodies and services can better prepare for future crises to future-proof the family violence and wider community service system.

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