Vic family violence recommendations

KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE VICTORIAN ROYAL COMMISSION INTO FAMILY VIOLENCE:

FEDERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

- Victoria should ask COAG to expand the funding of legal services in family law.

- COAG should consider establishing a Medicare service for family violence.

- Lobby federal attorney-general for family law reforms which address jurisdictional loopholes.

- Victoria should develop, with COAG, a single database for family violence, child protection and family law orders across the states, territories, and the Commonwealth

- Ensure the NDIS can identify family violence and respond to it.

VICTORIA RECOMMENDATIONS

- 17 "support and safety hubs" so victims can access help in one place.

- A centralised database led by Victoria Police for sharing information about risky cases and perpetrators across agencies

- More funding for specialist family violence support services

- More programs to help victims return home safely

- Set up perpetrator intervention services

- Phase out communal refuges and replace with private units

- Fund intervention and counselling for children

- Introduce respectful relationship education programs in Victorian schools

- Speed up child protection workers' responses to reports of family violence

- Increase the frequency of police monitoring of contraventions of family violence intervention orders

- Develop a new way for police to manage and report family violence

- Trial police body-worn cameras to collect statements and evidence from incidents

- Consider expanding police powers so they can issue intervention orders in the field

- Introduce legislation to ensure family violence matters are heard in specialist family violence courts