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A peak body, WDVCAS Inc. was established with funding from Legal Aid in 2011 (subsequently renamed Women's Safety NSW [12]) and began to engage more closely with government agencies including the Department of the Attorney-General and Justice, NSW Victims Services, FACS and NSW Police. [13]
The New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice, a department of the Government of New South Wales, is responsible for the delivery of services to some of the most disadvantaged individuals, families and communities; and the administration and development of a just and equitable legal system of courts, tribunals, laws and other mechanisms that further the principles of justice in the ...
This Tribunal will incorporate the functions of twenty-three existing Tribunals, including the NSW Victims Compensation Tribunal. One of the branches of the "Super-Tribunal" will be "Victim Services". [23] [24] The Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 was passed by the NSW Parliament on 21 February 2013. [25]
From its establishment in 2009 until the election of the O'Farrell Government in 2011, the department was known as the Department of Human Services. [ 1 ] Until its 2019 abolition, the department provided services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people , children and young people, families, people who are homeless, people with a ...
Whereas the Royal Commission's recommended matrix was based on a 100 point system - 40 points for the abuse severity, 40 for impact, and 20 for institutional factors - to determine payments up to a maximum of $200 000, the Guardian reported that the maximum payout of $150,000 was only possible in extreme circumstances involving sexual abuse ...
The Sentencing Council consists of members appointed by the attorney general. Those members are made up from a diverse background to better represent the views of the community. They include retired judges, law enforcement officers, defence lawyers, indigenous community members and persons associated with victims of crime.
WIPAN has also received small, one off charity grants [5] and funding grants of the NSW Government, [6] such as the three years of one-off funding grants from, the NSW Government, Office of Women, used to establish WIPAN's mentoring service in 2009. [3] WIPAN maintained that 84 per cent of women sent to prison in 2017 had committed non-violent ...
The Department of Customer Service is a department of the New South Wales Government that functions as a service provider to support sustainable government finances, major public works and maintenance programs, government procurement, information and communications technology, corporate and shared services, consumer protection, and land and property administration of the government in New ...