Weaving a Web of Accountability: A Multiagency Response that Spotlights Perpetrators
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Ballroom 2: In-Person Only
| Monday, November 23, 2026 |
| 4:10 PM - 5:10 PM |
| Ballroom 2 |
Overview
Amy Bascomb, Victim Support Act - Human Rights Commission
Three Key Learnings
1. The impact of embedding perpetrator response coordination into high risk, multiagency response to DFSV.
2. Real-life experience of moving from theory to practice.
3. Insight into how to build trust and collaboration, across a diverse sector, while remaining victim survivor-led.
Speaker
Ms Amy Bascomb
Assistant Director, Family Violence Safety Action Program (perpetrator Response)
Victim Support Act - Human Rights Commission
Weaving a Web of Accountability: A Multiagency Response that Spotlights Perpetrators
Presentation Overview
Efforts to “pivot to the perpetrator” are widely endorsed, yet many high risk domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) responses continue to place the burden of safety management on victim survivors. This panel showcases an embedded multiagency model that shifts accountability back onto those who choose to use violence and offers practical insight into how to move from rhetoric to reality.
The Family Violence Safety Action Program (FVSAP) is the ACT’s collaborative response to imminent and high risk DFSV. This session highlights the unique role of the Perpetrator Response Advisor (PRA), a function not found in other Australian multiagency forums. The PRA role strengthens collective visibility of perpetrator patterns-of-behaviour, supports real-time information sharing, and drives coordinated accountability across agencies including child protection, police, corrective services, courts, parole boards, and men’s behaviour change services.
Using case studies, panellists will walk through how the PRA team operates in practice, as they partner with a range of agencies to triage referrals, map patterns of behaviour, and assess, and respond to, risk. Strong partnerships and effective information sharing enable dynamic, interagency risk-mitigation plans which amplify the victim survivor voice, while shifting responsibility for safety onto perpetrators, and the systems responsible for holding them to account.
Critically, this model disrupts patterns of systems abuse, reduces the burden on victim survivors to manage risk, and addresses issues of perpetrator misidentification.
Panellists from FVSAP and Children, Youth and Families (CYF) will reflect on how sustained collaboration and trust-building enable timely, coordinated responses, offering transferable insights for jurisdictions seeking to embed perpetrator-focussed, multiagency accountability.
Please note: I have no doubt that if it would be beneficial, I could find willing senior leaders within ACT Corrective Services, ACT Policing and men’s behaviour change programs to join the panel. We are also open to 30min talk/others.
The Family Violence Safety Action Program (FVSAP) is the ACT’s collaborative response to imminent and high risk DFSV. This session highlights the unique role of the Perpetrator Response Advisor (PRA), a function not found in other Australian multiagency forums. The PRA role strengthens collective visibility of perpetrator patterns-of-behaviour, supports real-time information sharing, and drives coordinated accountability across agencies including child protection, police, corrective services, courts, parole boards, and men’s behaviour change services.
Using case studies, panellists will walk through how the PRA team operates in practice, as they partner with a range of agencies to triage referrals, map patterns of behaviour, and assess, and respond to, risk. Strong partnerships and effective information sharing enable dynamic, interagency risk-mitigation plans which amplify the victim survivor voice, while shifting responsibility for safety onto perpetrators, and the systems responsible for holding them to account.
Critically, this model disrupts patterns of systems abuse, reduces the burden on victim survivors to manage risk, and addresses issues of perpetrator misidentification.
Panellists from FVSAP and Children, Youth and Families (CYF) will reflect on how sustained collaboration and trust-building enable timely, coordinated responses, offering transferable insights for jurisdictions seeking to embed perpetrator-focussed, multiagency accountability.
Please note: I have no doubt that if it would be beneficial, I could find willing senior leaders within ACT Corrective Services, ACT Policing and men’s behaviour change programs to join the panel. We are also open to 30min talk/others.
Biography
Amy Bascomb is Assistant Director of the Family Violence Safety Action Program (Perpetrator Response) in the ACT, where she leads a nationally pioneering model to strengthen perpetrator accountability in high risk domestic and family violence cases. With a background in advocacy and frontline legal practice, Amy also holds qualifications in Men’s Behaviour Change and has extensive experience in system reform, multiagency collaboration, and risk-informed responses. She works closely with police, child protection, corrections, and behaviour change services to improve information sharing, accountability, and safety outcomes for victim survivors
