Secure funding for frontline family violence services recommended by bipartisan inquiry

Inquiry into prevention of violence against women and children also recommends appointment of new women's safety commissioner

More funding, a focus on prevention programs, and the appointment of a new women's safety commissioner are among almost 100 recommendations arising from a long-running inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence.

A bipartisan report into the issue, tabled in Parliament on Thursday, is also calling for a tougher approach to perpetrators, urging state and territory governments make coercive control a criminal offence and for a new national public database that would record breaches of domestic violence orders.