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Budget 2022
Investing in col ective action 
to eliminate family violence 
and sexual violence


Budget 2022
Investing in collective action to eliminate
family violence and sexual violence
Budget 2022 invests $114.5 million operating funding over four years in 
primary prevention, community-led responses and improved workforce 
capability to strengthen community approaches to eliminating family 
violence and sexual violence. 
The Budget package follows the launch of Te Aorerekura – the 
National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence,
 in 
December 2021. Te Aorerekura sets a collective path for investment and 
action by government, alongside tangata whenua, the specialist sectors 
and communities. 
Our ongoing investment in the family violence and sexual 
violence systems recognises that sustained effort and 
investment is required to eliminate violence. We are building on 
strong foundations and learning to work differently, including 
strengthening the capacity and capability in communities to 
prevent, respond and heal from violence. 
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Joint approach to investment in systems 
Significant effort has gone into addressing 
Future investment decisions will be underpinned 
family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa, 
by an investment plan, which will coordinate 
over many decades. In 2018, the Joint Venture 
activity across government, with communities and 
was established to create a more coherent 
across Budget cycles. 
and effective government response to family 
From 1 July 2022, the Joint Venture will formally 
violence and sexual violence. Since then, the 
become an Interdepartmental Executive Board 
Joint Venture has collaborated to develop joint 
(IEB) with collective responsibility through to 
Budget packages. This enables government to 
the Minister for the Prevention of Family and 
direct funding to areas of greatest need and/or 
Sexual Violence. The Board will focus on aligning 
opportunity across the system. 
strategy, policy, and budgeting functions across 
The Budget 2022 package of initiatives builds 
relevant agencies. 
on the government’s investment across 
Budgets 2018 to 2021, which addressed chronic 
underfunding across the system and laid the 
foundations for change. Budgets 2018-2020 
eased years of cost pressures, provided much-
needed support for frontline services – enabling 
the expansion of existing services and investment 
in new services. Budget 2021 invested in initiatives 
to help communities lead whānau-centred, 
holistic services.
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Working with communities to achieve change 
Through public engagement on the Te Aorerekura – the National Strategy, we heard communities call 
on government to shift the focus from central control to one that supports and enables the work of 
tangata whenua, diverse communities, and the specialist sectors. People want a focus on strength-based 
wellbeing, creating the conditions for families, whānau and communities to thrive. There is a desire in 
communities to increase primary prevention and healing. We learned all of this must be undertaken 
through a genuine Treaty partnership with tangata whenua.
Te Aorerekura provides a framework to prioritise and accelerate work already underway, while identifying 
where more and different actions are needed.
It will have the following impacts on the family violence and sexual violence system: 
•  Government commitment to addressing the underlying social conditions and norms  
that lead to family violence and sexual violence
•  Communities design, lead and deliver solutions to affect change
•  Government and communities work better together
•  Skilled, culturally competent, and sustainable workforces
•  Alignment around primary prevention
•  Joined up and easy to navigate services.
Government is beginning to implement Te Aorerekura and deliver on the first 40 actions. In mid-2022,  
we will hold our first annual hui, to come together with tangata whenua, communities and specialist 
sectors to take stock of progress towards our collective goals.
Budget 2022 family violence and sexual violence package:  
Investing for collective action
The Budget 2022 family violence and sexual violence package of initiatives is distributed  
across four broad areas:
•  Supporting the shift towards primary prevention 
•  Building specialist and general workforce capability to ensure the right response every time 
•  Supporting and expanding integrated community-led responses, and 
•  Laying the foundations for enduring relationships to empower communities to participate 
in change. 
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Budget 2022: Investing for collective action 
Budget 2022 invests $114.5 million over four years in primary prevention, community-
led responses and improved workforce capability to strengthen collective action 
to prevent and respond to family violence and sexual violence. It supports the 
implementation of Te Aorerekura – the National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence 
and Sexual Violence
 and delivers the first steps towards achieving the necessary shifts. 
Te Aorerekura shifts
Budget 2022 initiatives
$38.1m 
Shift One: 
Towards strength-based 
to support and expand integrated community-led responses (ICR) 
wellbeing
Votes: Police, Justice (IEB), Social Development and Corrections
$4.0m 
Shift Two: 
to lay the foundations for enduring relationships which empower 
Towards mobilising 
communities
communities to participate in change
Vote: Justice (IEB)
$7.4m
to develop and implement critical family violence and sexual 
violence guidance, standards and tools for specialist workers
Vote: Justice (IEB)
Shift Three: 
$4.6m
Towards skilled,  
culturally competent and 
to deliver foundational family violence and sexual violence training 
sustainable workforces
to the court-related workforce 
Vote: Courts
$9.8m
to maintain services for victims and perpetrators of family violence, 
to reduce harm and improve outcomes 
Vote: Justice
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Te Aorerekura shifts
Budget 2022 initiatives
$37.6m 
Shift Four:
Towards investment in 
to support the shift towards primary prevention 
primary prevention
Vote: Social Development
$5.0m 
to Family Start towards building the capability of whānau workers 
to identify and respond early to signs of family violence and sexual 
violence. Family Start builds off trusted relationships within the 
Shift Five:
whānau home, to build protective factors and provide continuity of 
Towards safe, accessible, 
support for the whole whānau
and integrated responses
Vote: Oranga Tamariki
$8.1m
to maintain services for victims of non-fatal strangulation 
Vote: Health
Learning and monitoring
Visit www.violencefree.govt.nz to read Te Aorerekura 
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Preventing Family Violence 
and Sexual Violence
Te Aorerekura Shift Four: Towards investment in primary prevention
$37.625 million (Vote Social Development) 
INITIATIVE
IMPACTS
This initiative invests in six primary prevention 
•  Families, whānau and communities design, lead 
initiatives that will work together to reduce family 
and deliver solutions to prevent family violence 
violence and sexual violence. They will encourage 
and sexual violence. 
long-term wellbeing in individuals, whānau and 
•  People, families and whānau have a sense of 
communities. It aims to address drivers of harm, 
belonging and a strengthened cultural identity.
enhance protective factors and shift community 
•  Children and young people understand healthy 
and societal norms that condone violence. It 
relationships, how to seek help, and can access 
supports Te Aorerekura’s shift towards investment 
tailored services.
in primary prevention (Shift Four) by delivering on 
•  Older people are safe, treated with respect, and 
Actions 21 and 23.
can access tailored services and supports.
This funding will strengthen the Ministry for Social 
•  Reduced tolerance for violence and inequity 
Development’s (MSD) current work programmes 
across Aotearoa New Zealand.
(e.g., E Tū Whānau, Pasefika Proud and the 
Campaign for Action on Family Violence) and 
The impacts will lead to longer-term  
support the development of new prevention 
outcomes including:
approaches for ethnic communities, older people, 
•  Improved safety and wellbeing for families, 
and youth. This initiative will focus on testing and 
whānau and communities.
learning what works to build an evidence-base of 
•  Increased family and whānau stability and 
effective primary prevention approaches to inform 
decreased impact on children.
future investment.
•  Reduction in family violence and sexual 
violence, including the intergenerational 
transmission of violence.
•  Reduction in costs and pressures across the 
family violence and sexual violence system.
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Supporting and expanding integrated  
community-led responses
Te Aorerekura Shift One: Towards strength-based wellbeing
Te Aorerekura Shift Two: Towards mobilising communities
$38.07 million 
(Votes Police, Justice, Corrections and Social Development) 
INITIATIVE
IMPACTS
This initiative provides additional funding across 
•  Government and communities work better 
four Votes to strengthen the existing Integrated 
together.
Community-led Response (ICR) approach, 
•  Communities design, lead and deliver solutions 
including increased learning and monitoring in 
to affect change. 
existing localities and future expansion across 
•  Joined up and easier to navigate services. 
New Zealand. Funding will enable the five existing 
community response localities – Whiria Te Muka/
As we work towards realising these system impacts, 
Te Hiku, South Auckland Social Wellbeing Board, 
more people, families and whānau affected by 
Waikato, Manaaki Tairāwhiti, Canterbury – to test, 
family violence will have access to integrated and 
evaluate and share learnings (Vote Justice) and 
inclusive responses to enable their safety.
partially address cost pressures (Vote Police). 
Strengthening the ICR approach will enable some 
Resourcing for existing regional infrastructure 
communities to lead the development of supports 
will enable the continuation of the Family 
and responses that work for their people, families 
Violence Response Coordination networks 
and whānau. Some community-led responses 
(Vote Social Development) and provide senior 
could focus on co-developing kaupapa Māori 
probation officers for the 5 existing localities (Vote 
models of support for whānau with iwi health 
Corrections). Future expansion will include helping 
services, marae, and kura. Communities may 
to stabilise responses in more community localities 
also integrate family violence and sexual violence 
(Vote Police) and leading relational commissioning 
responses into existing community centres or 
for the family violence and sexual violence sectors 
local service providers (such as mental health and 
(Vote Justice).
financial capability services). This should ensure 
that proactive help-seeking is met with skilled, 
It supports Te Aorerekura’s shift towards 
safe, and effective responses, as well as pathways 
strength-based wellbeing and towards mobilising 
to specialist services.
communities by delivering on Action 2 (Agencies 
Integrate Community-Led responses) and Action 6 
(Relational Approach to Commissioning). 
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Building workforce capability to ensure 
the right response every time
Te Aorerekura Shift Three: Towards skilled, culturally competent and sustainable workforces 
$7.383 million (Vote Justice: IEB)
INITIATIVE
•  Foundational capability information that all 
This initiative will fund development of workforce 
organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand can use.
and organisational capability frameworks and tools 
•  Scoping the requirements for an online platform 
for sexual violence and embed their use. It will 
or mechanism through which people and 
also fund embedding of the corresponding family 
organisations can share their family violence 
violence frameworks and tools by family violence 
and sexual violence response and prevention 
and sexual violence specialist organisations and 
learning and resources. 
workforces. This will build workforce capability 
to respond to family violence and sexual violence 
•  Family violence and sexual violence response 
harm. The initiative will fund trainers to work across 
services that are consistently holistic, delivered 
Aotearoa New Zealand to support organisations 
using a family and whānau- and a victim-
to build their family violence and sexual violence 
survivor-centred approach to better enable 
response capability. This will help to close workforce 
prevention, healing, strengthening and 
capability gaps, particularly around meeting the 
restoration of wellbeing to take place. 
needs of tangata whenua and diverse communities. 
•  A skilled, culturally competent, and sustainable 
It supports Te Aorerekura’s shift towards skilled, 
workforce will result in earlier, safer, and more 
culturally competent, and sustainable workforces 
consistent and effective responses to family 
and delivers on Action 10 (Develop and implement 
violence and sexual violence preventing further 
trauma-informed family violence and sexual violence 
harm and enabling strengthening, healing, 
capability frameworks for specialist workforces).
restoration, and wellbeing.
BENEFITS:
OUTCOMES:
•  Development of sexual violence workforce 
• For whānau – women, wāhine Māori, children 
and organisational capability frameworks and 
and young people impacted by violence access 
tools using a co-production methodology with 
family and whānau-centred, connected and 
sexual violence specialists and government, and 
inclusive responses that enable their safety, 
tangata whenua, victim-survivor and diverse 
strengthening, healing, restoration and wellbeing.
community representatives.
• For organisations and individuals – Family 
violence and sexual violence workers have 
•  Trainers are able to support organisations 
access to more pathways for professional 
to build their family violence and sexual 
development.
violence response capability, with a focus on 
•  Family violence and sexual violence workforces 
understanding intersectionality, particularly with 
have increased capability to provide safe, 
respect to tangata whenua, children and young 
effective, holistic, culturally appropriate, and 
people and diverse communities. 
victim-survivor and family and whānau-centred 
•  Well-trained family violence and sexual violence 
services, including for children and young 
specialist workforces that are available when 
people, and to respond to the needs of diverse 
and where victim-survivors need them, and 
communities.
well-trained family violence and sexual violence 
•  For the system – communities and community 
specialist workforces that can respond to people 
leaders are ready and able to identify and 
who use violence in safe and capable ways.
address how best to prevent family violence and 
sexual violence harm in their region. 
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Engage communities in collective monitoring, 
sharing and learning
Te Aorerekura Shift Two: Towards mobilising communities 
$4.0 million (Vote Justice: IEB) 
INITIATIVE
BENEFITS 
This initiative will fund the participation of sectors, 
•  Relationships with key groups in the family 
communities and people impacted by family 
violence and sexual violence system 
violence and sexual violence in a design process to 
become formalised and structured with clear 
determine their priorities across the Te Aorerekura 
expectations enabling healthy, respectful and 
Action Plan and preferred form(s) of on-going 
mutually beneficial relationships.
relationships with the Joint Venture. It will ensure 
•  Collective planning, decision making, ownership 
that all voices are heard while also making the 
and accountability over solutions and actions 
best use of limited resources, and ensuring that 
so government, sectors and communities learn 
communities, rather than government, are leading 
with and from each other.
the conversation and shaping where we need to 
•  Government responses, policies and decisions 
go. Due to communities’ different starting points, 
relating to family violence and sexual violence 
structures, capacity, and ways of working, it is 
are designed and made with and for specialists, 
likely that a range of approaches will be needed 
communities and those with lived experience 
to enable the diverse range of voices to be heard, 
making them safer, more appropriate and more 
rather than a one-size-fits-all.
effective. 
This is the first step in building the foundations 
•  Government agencies work closely with 
of an enduring model of engagement, where 
communities and specialists on solutions for 
communities engage with government on their 
communities. 
terms, based on their priorities. It supports 
Te Aorerekura’s shift towards mobilising 
IMPACT ON SYSTEM:
communities and starts delivery of Action 5 
•  Communities design, lead and deliver solutions 
(Engage and value communities in collective 
to affect change.
monitoring, sharing and learning). 
•  Government and communities work better 
together.
•  Government commitment to addressing 
underlying social conditions and norms.
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Foundational family violence and sexual violence 
training for the court-related workforce
Te Aorerekura Shift Three: Towards skilled, culturally competent and sustainable workforces
$4.568 million (Vote Courts) 
INITIATIVE
BENEFITS/IMPACTS
This initiative will improve the capability to deliver 
•  Court participants receive a safe, consistent 
safe and culturally appropriate training to the court-
and culturally appropriate response when they 
related workforce on the safe responses to people 
interact with members of the court-related 
impacted by family violence and sexual violence.
workforce. 
The training will be aligned with the Entry to Expert 
•  Training builds a common understanding of 
Capability Framework developed by the Joint 
family violence and sexual violence in the court-
Venture Business Unit. Training will, primarily, be 
related workforce, to support collaborative 
delivered regionally by community-based family 
practice. 
violence and sexual violence providers to improve 
•  Builds wellbeing in the court-related workforce 
responses.
by providing a safe environment for people to 
disclose and get help for their own experiences 
This initiative will establish and maintain a 
of family violence and sexual violence.
national training infrastructure to ensure national 
consistency in the delivery of this foundational 
training. It supports Te Aorerekura’s shift towards 
skilled, culturally competent and sustainable 
workforces and starts the delivery of Action 15 
(Build court workforce capability). 
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Family Start: increasing capability to prevent and 
respond early to family violence and sexual violence 
Te Aorerekura Shift Five: Towards safe, accessible and integrated responses
$4.99 million (Vote Oranga Tamariki)
INITIATIVE
This funding increases the ability of  
This initiative will fund a partnered approach to 
Oranga Tamariki to: 
building capability across the workforce to identify 
•  Provide a range of new opportunities for 
early signs of family violence or sexual violence and 
training, hui and communities of learning.
support tamariki and whānau who are affected by, 
•  Bring in specialist expertise and expand a core 
or likely to be affected by family violence and sexual 
online parenting resource to include more 
violence.
family violence/sexual violence resources.
It supports Te Aorerekura’s shift towards safe, 
•  Contribute to building the knowledge base of 
accessible and integrated responses and starts 
family violence/sexual violence across 
the delivery of Action 32 (Improve the Family 
the sector.
Start service).
Most significantly, engagement will be with 
existing Family Start providers, ensuring this 
What is Family Start: Family Start is a home 
action is developed and progressed with their 
visitation programme delivered by NGO providers 
full input. Alongside that we anticipate wider 
that supports whānau with the health, education 
engagement with tangata whenua, communities 
and wellbeing of their pēpi and tamariki aged 0-5 
and the specialist sector. This will be aligned with 
years. Trusting relationships between whānau and 
engagement strategies from other actions in the 
whānau workers enable conversations to take 
Te Aorerekura Action Plan. 
place within the home about difficult and  
sensitive issues.
BENEFITS/IMPACTS 
Family Start occupies an important space between 
•  Whānau have better and earlier access 
primary prevention and specialist or crisis response 
to specialist knowledge and support for 
services, providing holistic support to whānau 
responding to, and healing from, family violence 
across a child’s most critical development period. 
and sexual violence.
Family Start has the ability to leverage strong 
•  Whānau take action to prevent family violence 
relationships with whānau to both prevent and 
and sexual violence.
address family/sexual violence issues. 
•  Workforces are skilled and culturally competent 
in identifying and responding to the needs of 
whānau. 
•  Having a greater ability to keep the door open, 
whānau workers will provide appropriate 
support at a time of heightened sensitivity. 
•  Increased trust in the system as services are 
delivered locally to meet community needs.
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Maintaining services for victims and  
perpetrators of family violence
Te Aorerekura Shift Three: Towards skilled, culturally competent and sustainable workforces
$9.772 million (Vote Justice) 
INITIATIVE
BENEFITS/IMPACTS
This critical cost pressure provides funding for 
•  Increased funding to providers delivering safety 
family violence NGOs contracted by Te Tāhū te 
services and non-violence programmes will 
Ture Ministry of Justice and Ara Poutama Aotearoa 
support retaining and developing staff, resulting 
Department of Corrections. Additional funding 
in improved sustainability.
will strengthen the sector, ensuring providers 
•  Strengthened financial viability of approximately 
delivering safety services and non-violence 
80 community-based providers will mean family 
programmes are better resourced and equipped to 
violence safety and non-violence services will 
respond to service users and their whānau. 
continue, and quality will not be compromised. 
The funding increase helps to address the 
•  Effective services will reduce the likelihood 
pressures providers have experienced for some 
of further victimisation, harm and court 
time. Not only does the initiative raise funding 
intervention for victims of family violence.
levels for 2022/23, it allows for further increases. 
•  Better resourced providers will contribute to a 
This is important for ensuring sustainability and 
more stable sector to support the delivery of the 
stability within the family violence NGO sector. 
vision of Te Aorerekura across communities “All 
The improved resourcing will support the delivery 
people in Aotearoa New Zealand are thriving; 
of Te Aorerekura – the National Strategy to 
their wellbeing is enhanced and sustained 
Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence and 
because they are safe and supported to live 
its Action Plan. 
their lives free from family violence and sexual 
violence”.
The initiative supports Te Aorerekura’s shift 
towards a more skilled, culturally competent and 
sustainable workforce. The additional funding also 
supports the implementation of the Social Sector 
Commissioning Principles, specifically ‘The sector 
is sustainable’.
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