This is the fourth report of the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor and the final report tabled in parliament as specified in section 23(1) of the Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor Act 2016. The report covers reform implementation for the period 1 November 2019 to 1 November 2020.

As the final report under the current monitoring arrangements, the report also looks back over the nearly five years since the Royal Commission into Family Violence to highlight the major achievements in implementing the reform to date, as well as the areas that require more effort and should be the focus of future monitoring.

The Monitor’s fourth report focuses on the following themes chosen as monitoring priorities for 2020:

• What has changed since the Royal Commission into Family Violence?
• Implementation reviews
• Workforce
• Children as primary victims of family violence
• Safe Housing
• Perpetrator accountability 
• Adolescents who use violence in the home
• Voices of victim survivors
• COVID-19 response
• Maintaining momentum: What remains to be done?

The Monitor also provides her commentary and overview of the reforms in the foreword.