Five years on from the state's royal commission into family violence, its implementation monitor has found efforts to hold perpetrators to account remain inadequate.

The final report of Victoria's Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor, tabled in parliament on Thursday, said there were 48,071 family violence-related breaches of orders in 2019/20.

Enforcement of orders continues to be "inconsistent and unreliable", with perpetrators able to "conduct horrific violence and continually breach (family violence intervention orders) with often very little response from the justice system", according to stakeholders.

Long wait lists for men's behavioural change programs are also of concern.

In August 2020, 16 organisations offering such programs had 1100 clients on waiting lists, with an average wait time of more than 13 weeks.

The longest wait time was 10 months.

According to the report, it is not uncommon for men to have their community corrections order expire before being able to complete a program.

Meanwhile, some victims "are misidentified as perpetrators and there are difficulties with remedying this in official Victoria Police records".

Children and young people continue to be the "silence victims" of family violence due to a lack of targeted resources and data.

The report said there was a "troubling" lack of data on child victims of violence.

"This lack of data creates a significant gap in the ability of services to meet the needs of children and makes it impossible to determine whether the supply of services is meeting demand," the report read.

Family violence workers, meanwhile, "don't feel confident working directly with children".

A chronic shortage of public housing also continues to affect those trying to flee family violence.

"Victim survivors continue to be placed in motels due to demand for crisis accommodation not being able to be met, and these victim-survivors need more support," the report read.

The report, however, noted that almost $3 million has been spent by the state government to make Victorian women and children safer.

It said 166 of the royal commission's 227 recommendations had been implemented.

Implementation monitor Jan Shuard also described the state's response to family violence during the pandemic as "impressive".

"It has highlighted the dedication of the service sector and government agencies to ensure the needs of victim survivors remained at the centre of their work and that perpetrators were kept in view," she said.

Minister for Women and Children Gabrielle Williams said the government was at the halfway point of its ambitious 10-year plan to rebuild Victoria's family violence system.

"We have never shied away from difficult tasks. This is complex, long-term reform and we are committed to it," she said during question time on Thursday.

"While one in four women still experience violence from a current or former partner, there is still a lot of work to do and work we will."

Victorian Nationals MP Emma Kealy said one woman was killed by family violence every nine days and the state government must not delay life-saving reform.

"The blueprint to better protect them and their families is at our fingertips," the shadow minister for the prevention of family violence said.

"It is time for the talk and endless delays to stop. Women and children must be safe in their home. The violence must end and these lives must be saved."

The Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor's office has been extended and it will continue monitoring reform through to the end of 2022.

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