Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Prevention Queensland

The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Prevention Queensland Facebook page (the page) is managed by the Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety (the department).

Help or support

The page is a forum for discussion and is not intended as a place for counselling or seeking emergency assistance.

If you are in danger, don’t feel safe, or fear for someone else’s safety, call Triple Zero (000) immediately and ask for the Queensland Police.

For non-urgent police assistance, phone Policelink on 131 444.

Help and support is available for anyone affected by domestic, family and sexual violence:

If you require more information, support or resources, you can access support for victims of abuse.

If you have a reason to suspect a child in Queensland is experiencing harm, or is at risk of experiencing harm or being neglected, contact Child Safety Services and talk to someone about your concerns:

Comments guideline

This is an open forum and we encourage everyone to participate in open and constructive conversation about themes relevant to the prevention of domestic, family and sexual violence in Queensland. We aim to provide a supportive online community that is built on courtesy, kindness and respect.

We monitor this page from 9am to 5pm (AEST) Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) to ensure our community members are not exposed to content that breaches any of the following guidelines (including offensive language, discrimination, manipulative or predatory content, text, graphics, video, GIFs, links and any other content which is posted to the page):

  • no profanity, obscenity or vulgarity
  • no political content, such as comments and links
  • no content that could be considered prejudicial, racist, inflammatory or discriminatory
  • no posts that divert conversations away from the topic or in a deliberately antagonistic direction or are off topic or spam
  • no gratuitously violent or sexually explicit or offensive terms and imagery
  • do not defame an individual or group of people
  • do not name-call and/or make personal attacks or abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others
  • do not repetitiously post a single comment on a single post, or a number of posts
  • do not post unintelligible content
  • do not falsely represent another individual, organisation, government or entity
  • do not post any misleading, deceptive or false content
  • do not infringe copyright or intellectual property rights, including obtaining any needed permission, authorisation, licence and consent, and paying any royalties or other fees for the use of material owed by others
  • do not conduct any unlawful activity or solicit the performance of any illegal activity
  • do not disclose personal information that identifies or could identify an individual, including the commenter (e.g. email addresses, phone numbers or private addresses)
  • do not reveal the identity of a person/s involved in a court matter, either currently before the court or a previous court proceeding*
  • do not identify the parties to a domestic violence order (aggrieved or respondent); this includes identifying yourself as someone who has applied for or been granted a domestic violence order, either currently or in the past*
  • do not divulge details about crimes or their victims (this can breach the privacy of victims and their families and in some cases may be a criminal offence)
  • do not identify a child in care or in the youth justice system even if they're not named (e.g. you cannot identify that your niece or nephew is in care)**
  • do not identify a child or children at risk of harm, even if they're not in the care or youth justice systems
  • do not identify Child Safety Officers or other department staff
  • do not promote a commercial product, service, business, company or organisation.

Social media is publicly accessible and viewable for a long period of time. Individuals or organisations could in some instances be held responsible for the content they post on this page. Posting a comment or content on this page does not mean that we endorse, support or guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of the content or comments made by members of the public or organisations and we do not accept legal liability that is in any way related to the posted comment or to linked third party sites, including any use, misuse or alteration by third parties (including of any intellectual property rights).

If a comment causes us to be concerned for the welfare or safety of an individual, we will respond via private message with information about those concerns.

We reserve the right to update this policy at any time.

Violations of these guidelines may result in the denial of access to this page.

*It is a criminal offence to publish information that identifies, or is likely to lead to the identification, of a person as a party to a proceeding, a witness in a proceeding, or a child concerned in a proceeding under the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012.

**Criminal penalties apply to identifying or publishing the identity or information that may lead to the identification of a child, young person and certain others who the Child Protection Act 2009 or the Youth Justice Act 1992 apply to. Other legislation or court or tribunal orders may also prohibit disclosing or publishing the identity of an individual or information that could lead to their identification.

Privacy

All content published on the Facebook web platform is governed by Facebook's privacy policy. As users agree to these conditions by registering as a Facebook user, any content published on the Facebook website or app is subject to Facebook's terms and conditions which override the Queensland Government's privacy policy. As the department cannot be held responsible for content you choose to share on this page, to protect your privacy we recommend you do not share personally identifying information about yourself or others.

Comments posted and messages received through this page may be archived by the department for recordkeeping purposes. Any messages received about children at risk of harm will be forwarded to Child Safety Services, however we recommend these reports be made to the official channels listed above and not submitted via Facebook.

Intellectual property

By sharing your own material on this page, you are responsible for any intellectual property rights you might have in the material and you grant the department a royalty-free and irrevocable licence (permission) to do any act with your material. We do not take any legal responsibility for material or information you share on this page, including loss, misuse or alteration of your material by third parties or if you breach another person’s intellectual property rights.

For further information or questions please contact dfsvmarketing@families.qld.gov.au.

Last reviewed:26 September 2025

Last modified:26 September 2025

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