SEQURE CONSULTING

COMPLETED PROJECTS

We have completed a broad range of projects – collaborating with incredible people who are experts in their fields, and incrementally working towards achieving a safe and equal future for all.

ACT RAMF update

The ACT Government contracted our team to update the ACT Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) Risk Assessment and Management Framework (RAMF). The revision was commissioned to ensure the RAMF reflects contemporary evidence and best practice, strengthens system-wide responses to domestic and family violence, and enhances the capacity of practitioners across the ACT to identify, assess and respond to risk.

Overall revisions to the RAMF include:

General update of all cited evidence
Removal of any information to reduce repetition and length
Weaving of understanding of coercive control throughout the RAMF
Clarity on role and responsibilities by tier
Clarity on different levels of risk – and what actions are required by level
Expansion of advice provided to support safety planning

A major advancement in the revised RAMF is the introduction of structured tools to support practice, including screening tools for adult victim-survivors and child victim-survivors, and new risk assessment tools, including an identification tool for people who use violence. These tools address a key gap in the original Framework by providing practical, structured guidance for decision-making.

Project timeframe: July 2025 – May 2026
Funded by: ACT Government
Project team: Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Sequre), Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU), Adelaide Bragias (ANU), and Harshita Rupanagudi (Sequre)

A domestic and family violence fathers’ intervention model for New South Wales

For this project, our team designed a domestic and family violence (DFV) fathers’ intervention model for fathers who use, or are at risk of using, DFV in New South Wales, together with a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework to support its implementation.

The Model was developed by Sequre Consulting, in partnership with a consortium of experts in child safety, men’s behaviour change programs, working with men and boys, and program design and delivery, for the NSW Department of Communities and Justice’s Women, Family and Community Safety Directorate. The Model and accompanying MEL framework draw on:

a rapid review of Australian and international evidence on interventions for fathers who use, or are at risk of using, DFV, published from 2020 onwards (building on the Australian Institute of Family Studies’ 2020 review of fathering programs; Chung et al., 2020); and
consultations with experts, practitioners and stakeholders, undertaken to ensure the resulting model is theoretically robust, culturally informed, and operationally feasible.

Project timeframe: January 2026 – June 2026
Funded by: NSW Government
Project team: Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Sequre), Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU), Vicky Saunders (ACU), Dom Alford (Jesuit Social Services), Kyalie Moore (Boomerang Consultancy), and Hannah Robertson (ANU).

Seeking help in their own right

Final report by Sequre Consulting and Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre, Victoria, Australia

Children and young people experiencing family violence in Victoria face significant barriers in accessing crisis supports when and where they need them. Critical gaps persist in ensuring young people – particularly unaccompanied minors – can access safe housing, specialist support services, and clear pathways that support their stability, healing and recovery. This study seeks to respond in part to these gaps by centring the voices and experiences of young family violence victim-survivors in Victoria.

Final Report released: September 2025
Funded by: Safe Steps Family Violence Response Centre
Project lead: Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon

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Silence and inaction: Children and young people’s experiences of violence and systemic failure in South Australia

In July 2024 the South Australian Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence commenced. Through interviews with children and young people, this project will gather important views on the design, components and delivery of whole of system responses to children and young people impacted by domestic, family and sexual violence across South Australia.

Project timeframe:
September 2024 – March 2025
Funded by
The South Australian Government
Project team:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon

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Innovative Perpetrator Responses in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – Scoping study

This scoping study supported the ACT Government to better understand potential innovative approaches, available evidence to support proposed approaches across other jurisdictions and identify future trials and pilots that may be undertaken in the ACT to hold offenders to account, prevent them from reoffending, and improve victim protection.

Project timeframe:
June 2024 – August 2024.
Funded by
Community Services Directorate, ACT Government.
Project team:
Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU) and Jessica Seamer.

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Community attitudes to defences and sentences in cases of homicide and assault in Queensland

On 15 November 2023, the Queensland Law Reform Commission (the Commission) were requested by Government to review particular defences and excuses in the Criminal Code 1899 (Qld). To inform the development of the Commission’s recommendations, this community attitudes research project was contracted.

The research team, led by Dr Hayley Boxall with Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Prof Lorana Bartels, utilised a mixed-methods research design, involving a community attitudes survey and focus groups. Specifically, we utilised a weighted representative survey of approximately 2,500 people living in Queensland, and focus groups with 58 members of the Queensland community. To assess community attitudes to the use of partial and complete defences, we presented community members with several scenarios describing situations where one person seriously harmed or killed another person. As part of the survey, we also asked participants about their sociodemographic characteristics, and questions to assess their understanding of and attitudes towards domestic and family violence.

Project timeframe:
July 2024 – December 2024
Funded by
Queensland Law Reform Commission
Project team:
Dr Hayley Boxall (ANU), Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon (Sequre Consulting) and Prof Lorana Bartels (ANU)

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WHY PARTNER WITH US?

Sequre Consulting is home to the academic, data and policy experts ideally positioned to support incremental and transformative change projects at the community, workplace, national and global level.

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