ATS3223 / APG4332 Gender and Family Violence TASK 2: Plan of Family Violence Policy Brief & TASK 3: Family Violence Policy Brief
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS: ASSESSMENT 2 + 3
Assessments 2 and 3 are integrated: Assessment 2 is the planning process for the work you will
complete in Assessment 3.
For these two tasks, you are creating a Family Violence Policy Brief on one of the following topics
Assessment Tasks 2 and 3 are integrated: in Assessment 2 you begin your work and plan for
Assessment 3. The outcome of these two tasks will be Policy Brief that you can include in your
employment portfolio.
You need to choose which Policy Brief topic you want to research from the list below.
TOPICS
In this task you are providing information to your University’s Human Resources Department
about one of the following topics:
n Update on best practice perpetrator interventions
n Gender impacts and implications of adolescent family violence
n Economic abuse, gender inequality and family violence
n Gender and family violence impacts in LGBTIQ communities
TASK OBJECTIVES
The objective of these combined tasks is to enhance your skills in identifying different aspects of
family violence and developing concrete practical ways to communicate key evidence and
approaches to stakeholders in your Policy Brief). It will build and showcase your problem-solving
capacities in a range of workplace contexts. It will demonstrate your ability to conduct research in
real world contexts, showing you can find information on organisational structures and current
policy settings.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
1. Engage with a variety of critical and theoretical debates focused on patterns of gendered
violence;
2. Investigate your selected topic using a gender analysis;
3. Critically evaluate and make effective use of existing literature about your selected area, with
attention to sources, relevance, academic rigour and existing evidence [remember to review
existing policy settings at your selected University too];
4. Communicate in a written format about this specific issue with attention to your selected
relevant audience;
TASK 2: Plan of Family Violence Policy Brief
Task weight: 25%
Length: 800 – 1000 words (References and In-text citation included; 1000 word maximum)
For Task 2, you can use dot points to complete the template provided they communicate
information clearly.
Format for your Plan for your Policy Brief
Introduction (100 words)
Outline the family violence topic you are addressing
Aims and Objectives (100 words)
What do you hope to achieve with your brief/project plan?
Background (300 words)
Draw out the key relevant background material that you will use for your report:
Dot points of your headings
Key evidence you will be relying on (300 words)
List 4 key sources that you will be using in your final Policy Brief, outline why they are relevant to your selected area and state how you will be using them.
For example: I am using the AIHW dataset on Family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia: I am drawing out key statistics on …
TASK 3: Family Violence Policy Brief
Task weight: 50%
Length: 2000 – 2500 words (References and In-text citation included; 2500 word maximum)
Format and Approach for your Policy Brief
A Policy Brief is intended to inform a non-specialist, non-academic audience about a key issue: the language should be clear and concise; and the evidence should be solid. Policy Briefs are developed to inform governments, civil societies or other key stakeholders about an emerging issue, or to clarify an area of social concern that is unclear. They can make suggestions about changes required to service provision or to legislation.
Use the following headings to structure your Brief.
Introduction: Outline the family violence topic you are exploring (100-150 words)
You will be outlining the need for better information to inform policy and why this
information/issue is significant at this point in time.
Aims and Objectives: (150-200 words)
What do you hope to achieve with your brief?
Background (500 words)
Draw out the key relevant background material for your selected topic of family violence: this will include academic, government and other types of report;
Relevant statistics can be included here.
This will be ‘why’ it is important to better understand this issue
Key family violence issue you are exploring (1300 words)
Outline the central issue on which you are focused;
What evidence can you bring forward?
What are the implications of the information you have discovered for policy makers?
Conclusions/Suggestions for further research (400 words)
Offer your conclusions;
These may be that this ‘new’ understanding’ of the issue will have implications for policy Or that there is still more work to be done.