2027-28 Victorian State Budget submission

We know the devastation family and gender-based violence causes victim survivors including ongoing trauma, families in crisis and lives lost. These are the preventable human costs on the community.

Economic modelling shows that $554 million per year in core investment in preventing and responding to family violence would return $2.8 billion in benefits to victim survivors, communities and the Victorian economy. This is prevention of a cost, not new spending; for every dollar invested, nearly six times that is saved.

Safe and Equal are calling on the Victorian government to commit to prioritise funding, across four priority areas:

• Support children and young people as victim survivors in their own right
• Sustainable investment in the sector
• Safe, secure and affordable housing
• Strengthening justice responses and access to legal support