This document comprises 7 volumes preceded by a Summary and recommendations report. Contents are detailed below.

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Summary: The Commission's task; The Commission's conclusions; The way forward; Overview of the report. Recommendations. Report and recommendations - Volume I: Report and recommendations
Volume I: Acknowledgements; 1 The Royal Commission and its work; 2 The nature, dynamics and effects of family violence;
3 Key family violence data; 4 Family violence policies and service responses: a brief history; 5 Systems overview ; 6
Risk assessment and management; 7 Information sharing: Appendix A Letters Patent and terms of reference; Appendix B Amendment to Letters Patent Appendix C Statement of expenditure; Appendix D Witness list; Appendix E Hearing modules; Appendix F Lay witnesses; Appendix G Roundtable discussions: topics and participants.
Volume II: 8 Specialist family violence services; 9 A safe home;
10 Children and young people’s experience of family violence; 11 Family violence and the child protection system; 12 Sexual assault and family violence; 13 Pathways to services;
Volume III: 14 Police: front-line operations and workforce; 15
Police: leadership, resourcing and organisational systems; 16 Court-based responses to family violence in Victoria; 17 Offences and sentencing; 18 Perpetrators. Volume IV: 19
The role of the health system; 20 Recovery: health and wellbeing; 21 Financial security; 22 Restorative justice for victims of family violence; 23 Adolescents who use family violence; 24 Family violence and the family law system; 25 Review of family violence–related deaths. Volume V; Family violence and diversity; 26 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; 27 Older people; 28 Culture ally and linguistically diverse communities; 29 Faith communities; 30 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities; 31 People with disabilities; 32 Male victims; 33 Rural, regional and remote communities; 34 Women in prison; 35 Women working in the sex industry. Volume VI: 36 Prevention; 37 The workplace; 38
Sustainable and certain governance; 39 Data, research and evaluation; 40 Industry planning; 41 Investment; Appendix H Cost categories of PwC report; Appendix I The Victorian Government’s budget for specialist family violence services, 2014–15; Appendix J Funding in the Victorian Government 2015–16 Budget for family violence initiatives; Appendix K List of the activities and activity sub-elements for family violence service providers who receive funding.
Volume VII: Commissioned research - An overview of family violence in Victoria: findings from the Victorian Family Violence Database 2009–10 to 2013–14; Understanding family violence court proceedings: the impact of family violence on the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria.

In February 2015 the state government of Victoria, Australia established the Royal Commission into Family Violence. The Commission published its report in March 2016. The Commission's multi-volume 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. (From the website). Record #4978

The Commission'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.