Family violence reform rolling action plan 2025–2027

The Victorian Government is working towards a future where every person is safe, respected and free from violence.

To guide this important work, we have launched Until every Victorian is safe: Third rolling action plan to end family and sexual violence 2025 to 2027 (Until every Victorian is safe).

Until every Victorian is safe supports the implementation of the Victorian Government’s 10-year plan released in 2016, Ending Family Violence: Victoria’s Plan for Change.

Since then, we have transformed the way Victoria prevents and responds to family and sexual violence. This includes implementing all 227 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Family Violence in 2023.

Until every Victorian is safe builds on the first and second rolling action plans under Ending Family Violence: Victoria’s Plan for Change. It also extends on Strong Foundations: Building on Victoria’s work to end family violence, which was published in 2023 to explain our progress so far and what is needed next.

While progress has been made, there is still much work to do. Family violence remains widespread across Victoria. It is fuelled by gender inequality and harmful gender stereotypes, in a society where women are still treated as unequal to men on many levels. It affects people of all ages from all backgrounds including LGBTIQA+ communities.

Until every Victorian is safe outlines 106 actions, which all parts of the Victorian Government must work together to achieve over the next three years.

It includes four focus areas that explain the Victorian Government’s approach:

• Whole of person – understanding that everyone has different needs, making sure that our actions consider people’s unique experiences and needs.
• Whole of family – recognising that families can be both a source of harm and safety, meaning that we need to understand a person’s family context when providing support.
• Whole of community – encouraging people to challenge the attitudes and systems that drive family and sexual violence, including by preventing violence in places where Victorians live, work, study and play.
• Whole of system – refining laws, services, and processes to work together to more effectively prevent and respond to family and sexual violence.

Until every Victorian is safe was informed by extensive stakeholder engagement, reflecting a diverse range of perspectives and priorities. This process involved the expertise of people with lived experience of family and sexual violence, including the Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council (VSAC).

VSAC is made up of a collective of diverse people from across Victoria with lived experience of family violence. Members are selected to provide advice to the Victorian Government on policies, programs and laws to prevent and respond to family and sexual violence. Read the VSAC Statement September 2025.

Until every Victorian is safe also aligns with and complements Dhelk Dja: Safe Our Way – Strong Culture, Strong Peoples, Strong Families 2018-2028. This is an Aboriginal-led Victorian Agreement that commits Aboriginal communities, Aboriginal services, and government to work together and be accountable for ensuring that Aboriginal people, families and communities are stronger, safer, thriving and living free from family violence.

Ending family violence involves everyone. We all have a role to play – at home, at work and in our communities.

Hear more about our collective approach to action from key leaders and advocates: