What is Change the Record?
Change the Record has released a blueprint for change –
a concrete plan for Federal, State and Territory governments to change the record on the soaring Aboriginal imprisonment rates and high levels of experienced violence.
We need a new approach, which focuses on greater investment in early intervention, prevention and diversion strategies.
These are smarter solutions that increase safety, address the root causes of violence against women, cut reoffending and imprisonment rates, and build stronger and safer communities. On Monday 30th November 2015, the Change the Record Coalition launched a ‘Blueprint for Change’, This is the first time a broad range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous organisations have come together with a concrete plan for Federal, State and Territory Governments to change the record on soaring Aboriginal imprisonment rates and high levels of experienced violence. The Blueprint calls for a whole of government strategy, the setting of justice targets, and a commitment to work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their organisations and representatives to drive solutions.
Many of the solutions are already there. Now we need to make it happen, and do so in a way that empowers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities and services to drive these solutions.
