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
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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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