protect against possible recriminations) and a requirement for the Village Fono to help enforce protection orders. RECOMMENDATION 23: Strengthen the legislative framework and develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework.    Enact the Child Care and Protection Bill. Amend the Family Safety Act 2013 to: a) Include financial or economic abuse in definition; b) Include provision for required timeframe for the serving of protection orders; c) Afford protection to those who report family violence; and d) Require the Village Fono to help enforce and monitor protection orders. Develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework for all family safety legislation. 15.2 Services INQUIRY FINDING 34: The State is responsible for widespread human rights violations in failing to provide adequate services, support and prevention in relation to family violence, and in so doing implicitly endorses its continuation. It is the responsibility of the State to provide victims of violence against women “with services such as telephone hotlines, health care, counseling centres, legal assistance, shelters, restraining orders and financial aid”.47 However, in Samoa only protection orders are currently provided and even they are not universally accessible due to lack of awareness or affordability of legal services. For many years the Government has failed in its responsibility to provide these essential services, relying instead on the goodwill of communities and NGOs who are simply not equipped to deal with the full scale of the problem. In a damning assessment of its own failings, the Government recently concluded a number of factors contribute to the high prevalence of violence in Samoa, including: “(i) ineffectiveness of the current administrative and institutional framework for promoting family safety; (ii) limited access to prompt family safety assistance.” Samoa Family Safety Study, 2017, Inquiry document 46 47 Yakın Ertürk. “Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences.” E/CN.4/2006/61. Retrieved from https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G06/103/50/PDF/G0610350.pdf?OpenElement.