Building familiarity of the Information Sharing Schemes

How to use this guide

This resource is adapted from an activity developed by the Western Integrated Family Violence Committee (WIFVC) and delivered at the Building Confidence & Creating Connections Forum, held in July 2019, to support organisations prescribed under phase one of the schemes. This resource is designed for practitioners and can be used individually, within a team, or as a cross-sector group activity.

This activity is a collation of case scenarios that outline one family’s current points of engagement with a range of services across the service system. This resource is intended to prompt ISE’s to consider the kind of risk relevant information that is held by other prescribed services and to encourage engagement with MARAM and Information Sharing Schemes’ tools.

This activity seeks to demonstrate the importance of utilising the Information Sharing Schemes to enable the assessment and management of risk and build familiarity with the forms of risk relevant information other ISEs may hold and could share or request under the Information Sharing Schemes.

This resource is not designed as a guide for undertaking risk assessments and should not be utilised for this purpose. It is the responsibility of prescribed organisations to engage their staff with specific MARAM risk assessment training in accordance with their role and responsibilities under the MARAM Framework.

These case scenarios are an example only and do not capture all prescribed organisations that may be involved in such a scenario. Those completing the activity are encouraged to consider a broader range of prescribed organisations that may hold risk relevant information when utilising the Information Sharing Schemes.

To get the most out of this activity, it is advised that you familiarise yourself with the MARAM Framework and the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme and Child Information Sharing Scheme online training modules prior to working through the case scenarios. Key MARAM and Information Sharing resources are available on the Victorian Government website https://www.vic.gov.au/information-sharing-schemes-and-the-maram-framework.