By CAM LUCADOU-WELLS
AN expert panel that develops individual action plans to protect women and children most at risk of family violence is being rolled out in Casey.
The Risk Assessment and Management Panel (RAMP) was one of the recommendations from the coronial inquest into Luke Batty’s death and from the recent Family Violence Royal Commission.
It will hear its first cases this month.
Narre Warren South MP Judith Couacaud Graley said the program ensured vital information could be shared between experts and agencies to help those in need.
“Through this program, we can and will not simply save lives, but change the lives of those who have suffered for long enough.”
The panellists include members of specialist women’s family violence services, Victoria Police, Corrections Victoria, housing, mental health, alcohol and drug services, men’s family violence services, Child FIRST and child protection.
The RAMP experts will share critical information about specific cases of women and their children who are at serious and imminent threat from family violence.
The panel will then develop co-ordinated action plans to protect them.
