Australia’s first Royal Commission into Family Violence commenced in February 2015 and aimed to address the scale and impact of this crime in Victoria. It was tasked with finding solutions to:

• prevent family violence
• better support victim survivors
• make perpetrators accountable.

The commission saw 25 days of public hearings, commissioned research, held community conversations with over 800 Victorians and received almost 1000 written submissions.
The Royal Commission's report, the culmination of the 13-month inquiry, made 227 recommendations to transform Victoria’s response to family violence. The recommendations dealt with how to effectively:

• prevent family violence
• improve early intervention
• support victims
• make perpetrators accountable
• better coordinate community and government responses
• evaluate and measure strategies, frameworks, policies, programs and services

Visit here to track the progress for each of the recommendations.

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A SNAPSHOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Support and Safety Hubs to make it easier for victims/survivors to find help and gain access to a greater range of services
• immediate funding boost to services
• a 'blitz' to rehouse women and children forced to leave their homes
• stronger perpetrator programs
• family violence training for all key workforces
• new laws to ensure that privacy considerations do not trump victims/survivors' safety
• a Central Information Point to funnel information about perpetrators to the Hubs
• expanded investigative capacity for police, mobile technology for front-line police, trial of body-worn cameras
• more specialist family violence courts that can deal with criminal, civil and family law matters at the same time
• expanded respectful relationships education in schools
• an independent Family Violence Agency to hold government to account.

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CLICK ON THESE LINKS TO READ THE REPORT

What the RCFV was all about

The RCFV Report

Visit here to track the progress for each of the recommendations.