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Speaker 1: So one point three billion dollars in family and sexual

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Speaker 1: violence prevention spending is set to go under review by

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Speaker 1: this government. It's the second five year plan and it

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Speaker 1: follows on from the Labor government's first one, which is

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Speaker 1: launched back in twenty twenty one. Now the government announced

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Speaker 1: the review and new plan yesterday which we'll see a

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Speaker 1: new cross agency plan tasked with doing fewer things, but

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Speaker 1: doing those things well. And the move has been welcomed

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Speaker 1: by those working in violence preventions. So let's find out

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Speaker 1: if that's true. I am joined now by doctor An's

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Speaker 1: Jury from the Women's Refuge and is the chief Executive.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Good morning Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Are you welcoming the.

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Speaker 2: Plan many parts of it? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Well what parts are you not welcoming? That was not

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Speaker 1: a wholehearted one hundred percent? This is awesome.

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Speaker 2: Look, no plan is ever going to make all the

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Speaker 2: people happy all the time. You know, we need to

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Speaker 2: recognize that the things in there that are like, certainly

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Speaker 2: the focus on training of frontline civil servants. I think

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Speaker 2: that's long overdue. We need to be all talking from

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Speaker 2: the same songsheet.

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Speaker 1: When the government says we're doing we're going to do

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Speaker 1: fewer things but do them. Well, that means that some

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Speaker 1: agencies or groups like yours will be sitting there on tenterhooks,

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Speaker 1: aren't wondering whether you're the one that will get the

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Speaker 1: tick of approval?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that remains to be seen. Andrew, I have

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Speaker 2: no immediate fears, and I mean we'll face any sort

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Speaker 2: of review as everyone else would have to.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you understand Do you understand the new

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Speaker 1: government's approach and the differences from the past regime. Their

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Speaker 1: approach is called social investment. Do you understand the difference

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Speaker 1: between their approach and the past regimes approach?

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Speaker 2: Yes? No, maybe? Is the answer that I don't think

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Speaker 2: anybody is really clear in the sector. I don't think

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Speaker 2: anybody is really clear about what this particular version of

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Speaker 2: social investment is.

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Speaker 1: There. There are seven focus areas with phrases like protecting

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Speaker 1: children and young people, investing in commissioning will, keeping people safe,

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Speaker 1: and stopping violence. Do these goals seem vague?

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Speaker 2: They could be tighter. There are measures in the action

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Speaker 2: plan that do measure progress against those goals. So you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't had really solid measures before. That's

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Speaker 2: got to be a move forward.

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Speaker 1: Good please can be a little bit more confidence as

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Speaker 1: we head into Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Look, there's one of the things that's really good in

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Speaker 2: this plan is a focus on those using violence in

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Speaker 2: services that are available to them. That is long overdue.

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Speaker 2: So you know, if we're going to beat this thing,

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Speaker 2: let's try and turn the tap off and stop the

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Speaker 2: people that are actually committing violence.

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Speaker 1: Well, see it, and Merry Christmas. Thank you for all

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Speaker 1: your service over the course of the year. Okay, bye

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Speaker 1: bye bye. Now it is a seven to six, tough

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Speaker 1: job for her, tough job for us, tough job for

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