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Philanthropy NZ: Covid-19 implications on philanthropic funding and grantmaking
Plunket: Parenting Through Separation Schedule for Auckland
Monitoring and Advocacy Report of the Mental Health Commissioner 2020
Weekly Media Roundup
New roles to help health and healthy relationship teaching
Wellbeing of whanau at heart of new hub
Relationships, sex & dating: intergenerational ethnic perspectives
Community-led solutions to prevent family violence
Article: Victims should be front and centre in the response to men using violence
Webinar: Family Violence and Vulnerable Migrants. What are your rights?
Oranga Tamariki Evidence Centre Newsletter
DVFREE Workplace 'First Responder' Domestic Violence Training
Webinar: Measuring Outcomes and Evaluation
MAEVe July seminar: The Family Violence Experts by Experience Framework - Webinar
Sex, gender & identity in NZ: Contemporary problems and what to do about them
Weekly Media Roundup
Women’s freedom, self-determination and autonomy as collective safety goals
Trauma Informed Sexual Violence Prevention Education - Part 1
New Curriculum Leads on mental health and healthy relationships
Pacific perspectives on family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand
Implementing Mahi A Atua as a service response: “Te Kūwatawata ki Hauraki"
He Ara Oranga - Mānuka Takoto, Kawea Ake / Upholding the Wero Laid in He Ara Oranga
Invisible practices: Working with fathers who use violence – Webinar
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.
