Family Harm

Question 1

What does SAFVR stand for and what do they do?

Answer 1

Statistic assessment of family harm recidivism (reoccurrence)
Is a predictive statistical measure which calculates the likelihood of a person committing FH offence in the next 2 years given police are attending a FH investigation today

Question 2

When you do you have to summit a 5F family harm report?

Answer 2

at the end of the shift

Question 3

What does ROC stand for

Answer 3

Report Of Concern

Question 4

What’s does CPP stand for?

Answer 4

Child Protection Protocol

Question 5

Can you use your cell phone to write up the 5F report?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What is the name of the officer who creates the 5F?

Answer 6

The reporting officer

Question 7

Which of the following fall into the category ‘family relationship?

• intimate partner
• close personal relationship
• flatmates
• family members
• former intimate partners
• former family members

Answer 7

• intimate partner
• family members
• former intimate partners
• former family members

Question 8

Which act contains the definition of family relationship?

Answer 8

Family Violence Act 2018

Question 9

Can you issue a PSO for any type of domestic relationship?

Answer 9

No, has to be a family relationship

Question 10

Are children subjected to family violence if they only see or hear violence against a family member, but are not subjected to violence themselves?

Answer 10

Yes, even though children may have not directly received violence toward them, hearing or seeing it is still considered harm.

Question 11

What does CYPeFH stand for?

Answer 11

Child or Young Person exposed to Family Harm

Question 12

Where children reside at an address where family harm is occurring between the parents, children are considered victims of family harm also just by hearing or seeing it. These children have to reside at the address to be considered victims:

• Permanently
• occasionally
• usually

Answer 12

Usually reside at the address FH is occurring

Question 13

Jack is 16 and has witnessed his dad constantly telling his mother how stupid she is and threatening her with a hiding. Is Jack a witness or a CYPeFH?

Answer 13

Jack is at the age where he could be a witness of this episode (16 years or over) and can provide an evidential statement in regards to what he saw, making him a witness.
If Jack was at the age where his age or mental ability meant he was not able to provide an evidential statement then he would be classified as CYPeFH

Question 14

What are the three situations where the term ‘mutual participants’ applies?

Answer 14

• there is no history of FH for either parties recorded
• no offences have occurred at the episode we are attending (i.e verbal argument only)
• No pattern of coercive or controlling behaviour (cant establish a predominant aggressor or primary victim)

Question 15

What is the name to describe:

• the person (in the abuse history of the relationship) who is experiencing coercive and controlling behaviours from a family member or intimate partner?
• a person who is the most significant or principle aggressor in a familial or intimate partner relationship and who has a pattern of using harmful behaviour to exercise coercive control

Answer 15

• primary victim

- predominant agressor

Question 16

What is a ‘child’ under the family violence act 2018?

Answer 16

a person who is under the age of 18 years

Question 17

What does CPP stand for and what is it?

Answer 17

Child Protection Protocol

a joint process that is followed when OT and police respond to behaviour that meets a certain threshold

Question 18

What are the three categories of the types of behaviour or actions that meet the CPP threshold?

Answer 18

• Sexual abuse
• serious wilful neglect
• FH involving police/OT employees

Question 19

What happens when the criteria for CPP is met?

Answer 19

A referral is submitted via the family harm app

Question 20

What is violence defined as in section 9 of the family violence act 2018?

Answer 20

• sexual violence
• physical violence
• phycological violence

Question 21

What are the elements of family violence in relation to a person?

Answer 21

Violence inflicted:

• against a person
• by another person whom that person is, or has been, in a family relationship

Question 22

Is preventing someone from accessing a place considered physiological abuse?

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

Section 11(1) Psychological abuse (includes..)
Which of the following are considered physiological abuse:
- damage to property
- following a person
- ill-treatment of household pets
- financial abuse
- threats of sexual abuse
- harassment 
- following a person

Answer 23

all of the above

Question 24

Section 11(2) Psychological abuse - child

A person psychologically abuses a child if:
‘that person puts the child, or allows the child to be put, at real risk of seeing or hearing that abuse occurring’
Does this mean a mother, who knows her partner has had a bad day and will be angry about an upcoming bill she talks to him about, will yell and may hit her if front of their children. Does this mean the mother is guilty of abuse as she allowed the child to see the abuse since she knew it may happen and didn’t make sure the children were not present when she talked to him about the bill where he then hit her.

Answer 24

No, the person who suffers the psychological abuse is not regarded for the purposes of this subsection.

Question 25

Under episodic nature: Section 9(3) Violence against a person includes a pattern of behaviour that is made up of a number of acts of all/one of the three kinds of abuse - physical, phycological and sexual, and that have one or both of what features:

Answer 25

- it is coercive or controlling | - it causes the person, or may cause the person, cumulative harm

Question 26

What does ROC stand for and what does it mean?

Answer 26

Report Of Concern A notification to OT where care and protection concerns are identified Usually made during a FH reporting via OnDuty

Question 27

What are the 4 definitions of family relationship?

Answer 27

- a spouse or partner of the other person - a family member of the other person (parent and child) - family that ordinarily shares a household with the other person - has a close personal relationship with the other person i.e boyfriend/girlfriend

Question 28

What does FVIARS stand for?

Answer 28

Family Harm Interagency Response System are specialist multi-agency teams led by police that focus on high needs and complex risk cases of family harm

Question 29

What is one of the main jobs of the IRS (Integrated Safety Response to FH?

Answer 29

work with perpetrators to prevent further violence

Question 30

What is the role of the Family Safety Team?

Answer 30

includes engaging with complex risk families, facilitating effective interventions in partnerships with the community and working to preserve the safety of those families. The model used varies across policing districts

Question 31

What is the benefit for recognising coerseive and controlling behaviour?

Answer 31

- assisting victim to reach out for help before their situation becomes physically violent - identify the people who are at risk despite the circumstances presented to you at the time i.e the victim may be initially seen as the aggressor when police arrive as she sees the police as protective where she is finally able to say what she wants

Question 32

What is the time period at which police need to put measures in place to keep those at risk safe when a FH has occurred?

Answer 32

72 hours

Question 33

What kind of approach are we wanting to take at a family harm incident?

Answer 33

Eyes wide open

Question 34

Attending a FH incident and you hear yelling and things being broken when you arrive. Under what Act and section can you enter?

Answer 34

S14 S&S Act 2012 - Warrantless entry to respond to risk of life or safety.

Question 35

You have entered the house and find the male consoling the crying female victim. You know from the past there is children at the address. You want to talk to the female but the male keeps answering for her and wont leave her side. How can you use this Act to get the male away from the female?

Answer 35

Tell the male under S&S act you want to check the safety of the children and you are going to search the rest of the house and check on them. Offer for the male to come with you and show you around.

Question 36

What does the SAFVR results show?

Answer 36

Results in a risk assessment of either a low, moderate or high risk and is based on variables as: - age at incident

Question 37

What does SAFVR stand for and what does it comprise of?

Answer 37

Statistic Assessment of Family Harm Recidivism Is a predictive statistical measure which calculates the likelihood a person will commit a FH offence in the next two years given police are attending a FH investigation today. Gives a high, moderate or low risk calculation

Question 38

How is the SAFVR measure used?

Answer 38

It is combined with the outcome of the dynamic questions in OnDuty to give you a total Level Of Concern for Safety st the scene of your FH investigations

Question 39

What is the question used by police to determine who the person who is 'at risk'?

Answer 39

if the family where all left together at the address, who is the most at risk of being harmed?