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Royal Commission into Family Violence: final report
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 Summary and recommendations
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21.86 MB |
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Report Volume 1
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2.42 MB |
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Report Volume 2
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2.58 MB |
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Report Volume 3
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3.02 MB |
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Report Volume 4
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2.57 MB |
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Report Volume 5
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2.71 MB |
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Report Volume 6
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2.83 MB |
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Report Volume 7 - Commissioned Research
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3.18 MB |
Family violence can cause terrible physical and psychological harm, particularly to women and children. It destroys families and undermines communities. Sometimes children who have directly experienced family violence or have been exposed to it go on to become victims or perpetrators of violence later in life, so that the effect of family violence is passed to the next generation.
Recognition of the harm family violence causes and of the need to invest in family violence reforms to assure the future wellbeing and prosperity of all Victorians, resulted in the establishment of this Royal Commission into Family Violence on 22 February 2015.
As specified in its terms of reference, the Commission’s task was to identify the most effective ways to:
- prevent family violence
- improve early intervention so as to identify and protect those at risk
- support victims—particularly women and children—and address the impacts of violence on them
- make perpetrators accountable
- develop and refine systemic responses to family violence—including in the legal system and by police, corrections, child protection, legal and family violence support services
- better coordinate community and government responses to family violence
- evaluate and measure the success of strategies, frameworks, policies, programs and services introduced to put a stop family violence.
The Commission was asked to make practical recommendations to achieve these outcomes.
This report canvasses the many views heard by the Commission during its consultation processes and covers a broad range of topics including risk assessment, information sharing, service system pathways, police, courts, offences and sentencing, housing, financial security, recovery, the experience of children and young people and people from diverse communities, system governance and oversight, industry planning, primary prevention, and the role the health system, faith communities and workplaces can play in addressing family violence.
The report's 227 recommendations are directed at improving the foundations of the current system, seizing opportunities to transform the way that we respond to family violence, and building the structures that will guide and oversee a long-term reform program that deals with all aspects of family violence.
