Information Sharing Schemes
The Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme and Child Information Sharing Schemes allows prescribed organisations to share information to assess and manage family violence risk and to promote the wellbeing and safety of children.
Prescribed organisations, called information sharing entities (ISEs), include but are not limited to:
- Children’s Court of Victoria
- Corrections Victoria
- Department of Health and Human Services – Child Protection
- Magistrates’ Court of Victoria
- Victoria Police
When a request is made, an ISE may share information for family violence risk assessment and protection purposes.
See the Victorian Government website for more information about the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme.
Making a request
Information Sharing Entities (ISEs) can now request information under the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme and Child Information Sharing Scheme from the Magistrate’s Court and Children’s Court via the Courts Information Sharing (CIS) Portal.
The CIS portal is your secure, online platform to request, track and access information sharing requests.
Individual users will need to register with the portal before they start making requests. Registration takes a few minutes, and you will need to have access to your organisational email and a mobile phone.
User Guides
A range of support materials have been developed to assist your use of the CIS Portal.
- Registering for the CIS Portal
- Submitting a Request – FVISS
- Submitting a Request – CISS
- Frequently Asked Questions
- CIS Portal Cybersecurity
We are here to help
Our information sharing team is available to help you navigate the new portal and answer any questions. Please get in contact if you run into any issues with the new system at informationsharing@courts.vic.gov.au
Courts will continue to accept requests via email to informationsharing@courts.vic.gov.au until February 2025. To request information via email, please contact us and provide the following information:
- your name and job title
- if you are an RAE or a general ISE as prescribed in the Family Violence Protection (Information Sharing and Risk Management) Regulations 2018
- if you are an RAE, state the purpose of your request. That is whether you need information for a risk assessment or protection purpose
- the name of the person subject to the request, and whether they are the victim survivor, adults using violence, alleged adults using violence, third party or a child
- details of any related parties
- if the matter is urgent.
Contact us
Information Sharing Team
Family Violence Practice and Operations
Magistrates’ Court of Victoria
Email: informationsharing@courts.vic.gov.au
Resources
This is not a full list of legislation associated with this topic. See the Victorian Government's legislation website for more information.
