In collaboration with the NSW Ministry of Health (MoH), the Prevention and Response to Violence, Abuse and Neglect (PARVAN) Subcommittee was established in late 2021.
The MoH’s PARVAN Unit aims to ensure NSW Health delivers services to children, young people and adults who are victims of violence, abuse and neglect based on evidence and by providing culturally safe and trauma informed responses.
PARVAN supports and drives NSW Health policy and practice priorities in relation to the prevention, identification, response to:
- domestic and family violence
- Aboriginal family violence
- adult and child sexual assault
- child physical and emotional abuse and neglect
- working with adult survivors of child sexual assault
- children and young people with problematic or harmful sexual behaviours
- medical and forensic examinations relating to sexual assault, child protection or domestic and family violence.
SAERs referred to PARVAN
Reporting period: January 2021 – June 2025
Current six-month reporting period
Reporting period: January – June 2025
Between January and June 2025, 6 SAER reports were referred to PARVAN by one of the four SIR subcommittees. The majority of these reports related to Harm Score 1 (67%) followed by Harm Score 4 (33%).
Data related to these SAERs are included within classifications provided for the other subcommittees.