As announced in the 2021/22 Victorian Budget, the function of the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor has been extended to the end of 2022.
In setting this monitoring plan, my staff and I have consulted widely with government department and agency heads and with the family violence sector. My focus has been on identifying areas that are of the greatest concern to stakeholders in relation to reform implementation and where an independent perspective will add the most value to the ongoing family violence reform effort. Consistent with the principle of Aboriginal self-determination, I have worked with the Dhelk Dja Partnership Forum to include a topic chosen by Koori Caucus.
The high-level monitoring topics I have selected, as well as an estimated publication schedule, are as follows. Please note: As monitoring progresses, topics may be altered, added to, or replaced.
Each monitoring topic has been linked to relevant areas in the Victorian Government’s Family Violence Reform Rolling Action Plan 2020-2023
We have also identified the following cross-cutting themes that will run across all our monitoring:
- Embedding user experience and voices of victim survivors into our monitoring
- Intersectionality
- Children and young people
- Aboriginal self-determination
- Priority communities e.g.: LGBTIQ+, people with disabilities, rural and regional, criminalised women, older people and refugee and migrant communities
- Data, evaluation, outcomes and research
- Service integration.
My office will continue to identify and share good practice implementation examples and to alert implementation agencies to emerging issues and risks as they arise.
Reporting
The monitoring will continue in line with the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor Act 2016, with the exception that there is no longer a requirement to produce any future annual reports for tabling in Parliament.
As they are finalised, individual topic reports will be published on this website.
Before publication, the draft report will have been reviewed by departments/agencies and key stakeholders, whose comments will be carefully considered. Final individual reports will be provided to the Premier, Minister for Prevention of Family Violence and agencies two weeks before publication.
Jan Shuard
FVRIM Monitoring Plan 2021-2022
Updated