Scarlet Alliance makes the following recommendations to inform the development of the Second Action Plan:

1. Include sex workers as a priority population and key stakeholders in the Second Action Plan, empowering us to develop, expand and deliver appropriate and effective FDSV services within our communities.
2. Decriminalise sex work and introduce comprehensive and accessible civil anti-discrimination and anti-vilification protections at the federal level, and in all states and territories. FDSV policy responses must recognise decriminalisation as a structural violence prevention measure in its own right.
3. Resource national, state and territory peer sex worker organisations to deliver dedicated, targeted and culturally-appropriate FDSV responses, moving beyond the current model of sporadic project funding.
4. Address the structural barriers faced by sex workers in accessing police, the criminal legal system, housing and support services as victim-survivors of FDSV, including through targeted workforce training, and funding for community legal centres to provide tailored assistance to sex workers navigating justice processes.
5. Recognise the impacts of Australia’s migration law, policy and enforcement approaches on victim-survivors of gender-based violence, and advocate for solutions that enable access to reporting, justice and support services regardless of visa status.
6. Address digital and financial discrimination towards sex workers through an economic security lens, including responses to technology-facilitated abuse, platform-based deactivation, payment processor discrimination, and the use of digital tools as mechanisms of coercive control, including by ensuring that online safety regulatory frameworks do not increase sex workers’ exposure to harm.
7. Incorporate sex worker-inclusive practice competencies into FDSV workforce training frameworks, co-designed and co-delivered with peer sex worker organisations. These should include recognition of sex work stigma, knowledge of referral pathways to peer organisations, and practice standards for non-judgmental engagement with sex worker clients.