Collecting data about people who use family violence is complex and there are inconsistences in what, when and how this data is collected.
Tabled in the Legislative Assembly on 1 April 2025, the report makes
71 findings and 61 recommendations.
The report focuses on how the Victorian Government can achieve a more holistic understanding of people using family violence. This includes considering improvements to current data collection, linkage and sharing and what else is needed to build knowledge about the perpetration of family violence.
Recommendations include mapping what existing data on people using family violence can and has the potential to do, and bringing together existing and planned research.
Some key areas of opportunity in the report are:
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty
- rectification processes to correct misidentification
- learning what works: programs for people using family violence
- a population-based survey.
This brief summary comes from Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system report, released in February 2025, highlighting serious concerns about the current youth justice system.
Given the alarming evidence presented in the interim report, alongside the critical issues highlighted in the National Children’s Commissioner’s report, Help way earlier!: How Australia can transform child justice to improve safety and wellbeing, the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee strongly urges the Senate to continue its inquiry into the incarceration of children in Australia.