Family Violence Information

Information Sharing Schemes

Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS) & Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS)

Information Sharing laws have recently changed. Seymour Health may share and receive information from other legislated organisations to support assessment and management of your (or your child’s) risk of family violence and support the wellbeing and safety of children and young people (under 18 years).  Your consent is required in most information sharing situations. Information can be shared about any person without consent if there is a serious threat to someone’s life, health, safety or wellbeing of a child (under 18 years).

Where possible and safe, we will ask you what you think about sharing your information, and you will be informed if your information is shared. When shared, your information will be kept confidentially and securely.  Your information will never be given to the perpetrator of family violence.

For more information please go to: Family Safety Victoria – https://www.vic.gov.au/family-violence-information-sharing-scheme

Health Professionals

Any request for the release of information pertaining to the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS) & Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) must be done so by an authorised Information Sharing Entity (ISE) and/or Risk Assessment Entity (RAE). The requesting authorised person/agency will need to be verified prior to the release of information under these schemes.

To request information under one of these schemes, please complete the Information Sharing Request form and email your request to ISS@seymourhealth.org.au

To access the Family Violence Sharing Request Form, click here.

Browser History

  • The websites you look at are stored in your browser. See below for how to clear your browser history.
  • Use the Quick exit button to easily leave the website. This doesn’t clear the website from your browser history.

To view your browsing history in Chrome
  1. In any Chrome window, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H, or navigate to the URL chrome://history.
  2. Or,  click the Menu button, which is located near the top-right side of the browser window, and choose History, then History again.

Visit Google Support for more information on deleting your browser history

To clear your browsing history in Chrome
  1. Click the Menu button, choose More tools and then Clear browsing data…Or, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Del.
  2. Select what data you’d like to clear from your history using the drop-down menu and check the appropriate boxes.
  3. When you’re ready to clear your history, click Clear browsing data.

To clear your browsing history in Microsoft Edge
  1. Select Settings and more (the three dots in the top right corner) > Settings  > Privacy, search, and services (From the left menu).
  2. Under Clear browsing data > Clear browsing data now, select Choose what to clear.
  3. Under Time range, choose a time range from the drop-down menu.
  4. Choose the types of browsing data you want to clear.
  5. Click Delete
To clear your Internet Explorer browsing history in Microsoft Edge
  1. Select Settings and more (the three dots in the top right corner) > Settings  > Privacy, search, and services (From the left menu).
  2. Under Clear browsing data for Internet Explorer > Clear browsing data now, select Choose what to clear.
  3. Under Time range, choose a time range from the drop-down menu.
  4. Choose the types of browsing data you want to clear.
  5. Click Delete

Visit Microsoft Support for more information on deleting your browsers history from Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer

To clear your browsing history in Safari
  1. In the Safari app on your Mac, choose History > Clear History, then click the pop-up menu.
  2. Choose how far back you want your browsing history cleared.
To clear your browsing history in Safari on your phone
  1. Go to Settings > Scroll down to Safari
  2. Scroll down and tap Clear History and Website Data.

Visit Apple Support for more information about deleting your history from Safari on your Mac and iPhone