Te Aorerekura Action Plan 2025-2030
Breaking the Cycle of Violence

The Action Plan sets out a commitment to adopt a social investment approach to make evidence informed decisions about when, where and how we invest to deliver change and improve lives. This includes understanding and prioritising what we are investing and in and contracting differently.   

Baseline Review 

Te Puna Aonui is working with agencies to complete a baseline review of spending on family violence and sexual violence across government.. Over the next few months, we will be working in partnership with agencies to gather and analysis funding and investment information. This will help provide greater visibility of what we invest in and inform how we can make collective investment decisions.  

Social Investment  

In Budget 2025, the Government announced new funding of $275 million over four years for a new Social Investment Fund to deliver an integrated approach to social sector commissioning, focused on outcomes. You can read more here(external link). Te Puna Aonui is working with Social Investment Agency to identify opportunities for how it can participate and align with the new Social Investment Fund over time.  

Te Puna Aonui agencies are also working together to identify opportunities to apply social sector commissioning principles and align contracting to increase the efficiency, accessibility and effectiveness of services.   

Te Puna Aonui is working to develop the operating model for collaborative multi-agency responses to family violence, underpinned by technology that will enable more effective ways of working.   

The Keeping People Safe work programme will strengthen core components of good practice, such as governance and leadership, consistent management of high risk, and effective information sharing and collaborative case management.  

This work requires government agencies to strengthen the ways they work together and with communities. This is to bring their focus onto families at high risk of violence and with complex needs, including those at with children and young people, and at greatest risk of serious injury and death.  

System Improvement Planning 

Te Puna Aonui is partnering with 12 localities to strengthen their multi-agency response to family violence by developing System Improvement Plans. These plans will identify opportunities for improvement and will also provide information about what is required for the future operating model for effective multi-agency responses to family violence across the country.  

Specialist Outreach 

Specialist outreach models are being implemented in Auckland City and Rotorua to provide coordinated, collaborative responses to families at high risk of violence. The Minister announced(external link) the partnership in Auckland City with Ngāti Whatua Ōrakei and Manawa Tītī to test specialist outreach and the high-risk approach, on April 11. Specialist outreach provides intensive and proactive specialist support for victims/whānau. 

High-Risk Prototype 

The high-risk prototype is a guidance document that aims to increase consistency in statutory responses to people, whānau, and families at the highest risk of severe violence.    

The tiered approach was developed through engagement with family violence specialists who participate and have expertise in multi-agency responses, to understand current practice, what is working well, and barriers to good practice. It also draws from the literature on safe and effective multi-agency responses in Aotearoa and internationally, and the Risk and Safety Practice Framework (RSPF).(external link) 

The Prototype is expected to be published in December. 

Project Whetū – safe information sharing and case management 

Te Puna Aonui is leading Project Whetū - a modern technology platform that will enable safe information sharing, case management, triage and consistent approaches to risk assessment. This project is subject to Cabinet approval of the business case, with decisions likely in September.   

Workforce capability  

Te Puna Aonui is increasing workforce capability, consistency in training, and effectiveness through:  

·       publishing workforce capability frameworks to guide practitioners and organisations on standards for safe practice and risk management,  

·       enabling quality training by identifying how training options align with the skills set out in the capability frameworks   

·       strengthening career pathways across the sector, and 

·       embedding best practices into multi-agency responses at local and regional levels. 

The Stopping Violence work programme seeks to: 

·             strengthen the accountability mechanisms that hold people with violent behaviour responsible for their behaviour, and  

·             provide the right intervention and service to change violent behaviour. 

Stalking law  

The Justice Select Committee reported back to Parliament in June and the new law is now progressing through the legislative process. The Ministry of Justice will lead the implementation of the law.  

Review of current interventions for people who use violence

The cross-agency working group has scoped the review of current interventions for people who use violence and work is underway to:

·       develop a current state report

·       procure a supplier to deliver an evidence and literature review on stopping violence services, and

·       engage with key stakeholders on the current and future state of interventions for people who use violence.

The relationship between this project and other actions in the Action Plan will also be explored. 

Te Puna Aonui maintains regular relationship meetings with specialists, tangata whenua, victim-survivors and communities to ensure awareness of key issues and concerns. In addition, lead agencies will engage with stakeholders as the work to deliver the Action Plan progresses. We will ensure these opportunities are communicated when timing for formal engagements is confirmed.  

If you are interested in these engagement opportunities please email contact@tepunaaonui.govt.nz and let us know which focus area you are interested in.  

Some information has been redacted. Where this has occurred OIA withholding grounds have been noted, to indicate the nature of the information that is redacted.