SASVic welcomes today's Unlocking the Prevention Potential report (zurl.co/Nm4P). Here are four positives and one disappointment from the report, with more to come:

1) We won't stop gendered violence if we keep ignoring sexual violence. The report recognises the urgent need for a greater focus on sexual violence and underscores the need to respond to all forms of sexual violence (SV), not just in the context of family violence.

2) It looks at all the levers we can use to prevent gendered violence. The report moves beyond putting primary prevention at odds with other prevention work. The report recognises we can prevent sexual violence with good responses to survivors and to perpetrators.

3) We need to do much more for kids and young people We can't prevent violence if we don't support children & young people to recover - making them vulnerable to further victimisation and in some cases, perpetration. Yet, not everyone who is sexually assaulted gets a response.

As well, in Victoria, there's only funding to work with 1250 kids and young people using harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) a year. Our services typically work with twice the number of kids using HSB than they're funded for.

4) The report shines a light on the powerful lobbies that spend a lot of time and money influencing the government.

The recommendation to test the technology & implementation of age-verification for online pornography and the need to increase young people’s porn literacy are positive starting points to address the harm of pornography. We look forward to stronger regulations of tech platforms.

5) The Prevention Innovation Fund Our services are straining to provide a response to clients. A dedicated prevention fund will allow specialist sexual violence and family violence services, and others, to innovate and extend interventions we know will make a difference.

6) Other good recommendations: - Build the specialist SV & FV workforce. - Better collaboration between the SV & FV sector and the alcohol and other drug sector. - The call for a national response to the rise of online misogyny & radicalisation, especially of boys and men.

Lost opportunity The panel consulted with neither the national sexual violence peak body (the National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence) nor SASVic. If it had, we would have advocated strongly for an immediate uplift for frontline SV and HSB sectors.

Now we need a response from the government commensurate to the sense of urgency in the report.

Great to see Jacinta Allan describing positive impacts of FV reform in Vic, & focus on justice reform. Premier, when will Vic sexual violence strategy be released, to address SV justice reform? Also Justice Navigators will have such a positive impact - when will work start?

Great to see Anthony Albanese talking about focus on pornography and its impact re gendered violence #nationalcabinet

Important to see focus on kids & young people. Important to remember that sexual violence services have worked for decades w kids and young people, but are starved for funds. #nationalcabinet

This includes in-depth work for up to 2 years with chn & young people, mainky boys, who use harmful sexual behaviour. This is exploding, but in Vic services are funded to work only w around 1,250 kids across the whole state (although they work w 2x that). Anthony Albanese Jacinta Allan

On the death review we see that the deadly effects of sexual abuse against children and adults yet there are so few funded services