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2020
February
DVFREE Workplace: 'First Responder' Domestic Violence Training
Report and recommendations from Māori-led Inquiry into Oranga Tamariki
Social Wellbeing Agency replaces Social Investment Agency with new approach
“Safe Relationships and Sexuality” for people with disabilities and their whanau
Public hearing into the State response to civil redress and civil litigation claims
Abortion law reform: Select Committee report, next steps
Vuvale Sautu: Fiji Family Violence Prevention Training Programme
Links between violent extremism and violence against women
Working with Victims & Offenders of Domestic Violence in Multiple Settings
Growing Pasifika Solutions 2020
ANROWS National Research Conference on Violence against Women and their Children
Weekly Media Roundup
Children's Day – Te rā o ngā Tamariki
Salvation Army State of the Nation report 2020
Sexuality Education Guide update with Associate Professor Katie Fitzpatrick
DVFREE Workplace: 'First Responder' Domestic Violence Training
Fofala Le Fala - NZPsS workshop
Responding effectively to victims of domestic violence
Family Court specialist reports: Current issues - NZPsS workshop
Working together in community-led ways to enable children to flourish
Challenges and Opportunites for addressing inequities of the NZ justice system
Ko e Fakatupuolamoui he tau Magafaoa: Niue Family Violence Prevention Training
Pacific Family Violence Prevention Training (What you need to know)
Protection Order breach on the rise
August 28, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Convictions for breaches of court-ordered and police imposed orders increased by 10 % in the last 5 years. It totalled nearly 1900 in 2012. Offenders text, stalk or cyberbully their victims, and can get a maximum sentence of 2 years for breach. This will go up to 3 years under the family court reforms.
Refuges report on the women's burdens of attending court repeatedly to enforce protection orders. These increased by 14 % in the past 5 years and women and their children carry the burdens whilst themselves struggling with multiple issues and struggles on top of the abuse.
It would help them, refuges, service providers and the court system if Ruth Busch's suggestion to impose cumulative sentences for every breach.
"If I breach once, or I breach 13 times, they will sentence concurrently, so the next 12 times after my breach is just a freebie'. Ms Busch explained this does not deter a perpetrator.
You can read the news article here and an editorial here.
