The crackdown was a 2010 election commitment

, and pokies activists have urged the government to act immediately because of the harmful affects on children.

The 2010 Coalition Plan For Gaming states the Coalition will not allow venues to encourage parents to take children with them "to be dumped elsewhere at a venue without parental supervision while the parents gamble".

Gaming Minister Michael O'Brien has asked the Responsible Gambling Ministerial Advisory Council to establish a working group to provide advice on the commitment.

"The Victorian Coalition Government will consider what regulatory changes are necessary and how to implement them after receiving the council's advice," he said.

PokieAct.org monitors gaming venues and publishes information on venue features such as playgrounds and arcade games.

PokieAct.org founder Paul Bendat said the government needed to take action.

"The Ballieu government [has] done nothing to enact this promise other than refer it to a committee weighted in favour of the pokie industry," he said.

Mr Bendat said many venues aggressively marketed towards families and children. He said he had served the gambling minister with a notice asking the government to fulfil its legal obligations not to encourage children to gamble.

"There is no effective policy about limiting the sight and sound of pokies to children in a gaming venue," he said.

"It is really simple – a pokies venue is not suitable for a child."

Last financial year the two venues in Darebin where gamblers lost the most on pokies were the Cramers Hotel in Preston ($12.3 million) and Edwardes Lake Hotel in Reservoir ($10.9 million).

Both venues have playgrounds.

Darebin councillor Gaetano Greco said children should not be in gaming venues.

"It has the potential to create inter-generational issues," Cr Greco said.