Another contracted body delivering a Commonwealth entitlement, alongside employment services providers, apprenticeship support services and energy retailers. In this instance the contracted model carries a clear advantage: a specialist family violence service is better placed to conduct risk assessment and safety planning than a general payment agency would be, and the assessment is bundled with the support rather than separated from it.

The Leaving Violence Program became permanent from 1 July 2025 following the Escaping Violence Payment trial, funded at $925 million. It is delivered through a national provider and four Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led services based in the Broome, Cairns, Darwin and Dubbo regions — which is a deliberate and well-founded design choice rather than an afterthought.

What this database records is the evidence test, not the delivery. To access the payment a person must show financial stress and evidence of violence: a referral from a family violence service with a risk assessment and safety plan, or an apprehended violence order, a court order, or a police report.

Every one of those is reasonable on its own. The difficulty is that the same person is separately proving the same violence to a court, to Services Australia for a crisis payment, to a housing authority for priority status, and to an employer for family violence leave — each with its own test. See Prove it once.