Te Aorerekura:
National Strategy and Action Plan to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence
SAFEGUARDING FOUNDATIONS
Te Aorerekura is the National Strategy and Action Plan to eliminate FVSV. It sets out pathways for government, tāngata whenua, specialist sectors, and communities to eliminate family violence and sexual violence.
It’s been produced by the Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention (known as The Centre).
Te Aorerekura’s Executive Summary states that:
Addressing family violence and sexual violence
will significantly improve the wellbeing
of all people in Aotearoa New Zealand
Te Aorerekura Strategy acknowledges that the extensive change needed to achieve outcomes will take a generation.
It presents six key shifts to help those outcomes to be achieved over a 25-year period.
Those six key shifts represent changes in how tāngata whenua, specialist sectors, communities and government work together.
Its current Action Plan 2025-30 aims to accelerate action with seven areas of focus.
For your action:
Safeguarding providers / professionals and health practitioners are encouraged to become familiar with Te Aorerekura and determine how your own approaches and practices can align directly with:
the required shifts –particularly Shifts 1, 3, 5 & 6
the current areas of focus, 2025-30.
Six key shifts
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Adopt a strength-based wellbeing approach that will integrate all aspects by adopting the Tokotoru model with a focus on changing the social conditions, structures and norms that perpetuate harm.
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Mobilise communities through sustainable, trust-based relationships and commissioning decisions that are grounded in Te Tiriti, and sharing evidence on what works.
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Ensure the specialist, general and informal workforces are resourced and equipped to safely respond, heal and prevent and enable wellbeing.
How can VisAble help?
For safeguarding providers, and for those professionals and practitioners who provide safeguarding support, VisAble’s guidance, training and coaching on Safeguarding / Whakahaumarutia can help you build organisational capability and kaimahi competencies in identifying, responding to, stopping and preventing violence, abuse and neglect. Find out more about our training programmes.
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Invest in a Te Tiriti-based primary prevention model that strengthens the protective factors so that family violence and sexual violence do not occur.
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Ensure accessible, safe and integrated responses meet specific needs, do not perpetuate trauma, and achieve safety and accountability.
How can VisAble help?
For safeguarding providers, and for those professionals and practitioners who provide safeguarding support, VisAble’s guidance on Safeguarding / Whakahaumarutia can help you build organisational capability and kaimahi competencies.
You can access VisAble’s guidance on accessibility, designed for safeguarding providers, and for professionals and practitioners – as well as for anyone who is working alongside or supporting a disabled person, and for all businesses where disabled people might interact.
You can access VisAble’s guidance on inclusiveness, designed for safeguarding providers, and for professionals and practitioners – as well as for the New Zealand public.
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Increase capacity for healing to acknowledge and address trauma for people and whānau.
Source: Te Aorerekura: National Strategy and Action Plan to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence, Executive Summary, pages 6-7.
Five-year focus areas, 2025-30
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Investing in what works and meets people’s needs; being strategic about what, where, and how we fund; and stopping things that are not effective.
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Agencies working better together with communities and iwi to keep people safe.
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Stopping violence; holding people accountable and responsible for their behaviour; and supporting them to change.
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Prevention and effective early intervention to safeguard children and young people.
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Trained, skilled, and sustainable family violence and sexual violence workforces that can safely recognise, refer and respond to violence.
How can VisAble help?
For safeguarding providers, and for those professionals and practitioners who provide safeguarding support, VisAble’s guidance, training and coaching on Safeguarding / Whakahaumarutia can help you build organisational capability and kaimahi competencies.
Contact us at info@visable.co.nz
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Stopping sexual violence from happening; helping those who have been affected; and creating a safe environment for everyone.
How can VisAble help?
VisAble’s guidance, training and coaching on Safeguarding / Whakahaumarutia
can help you stop, prevent and respond to abuse, including helping those who have been affected and enabling safe outcomes.
Contact us at info@visable.co.nz
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Increasing understanding about family violence and sexual violence to promote positive behaviour, change social norms, and empower people to recognise and prevent harm. Creating safer communities to lower the risk of violence by strengthening protective factors.
How can VisAble help?
VisAble’s guidance, training and coaching on Safeguarding / Whakahaumarutia
can help you build organisational capability and kaimahi competencies in:
identifying, responding to, stopping and preventing violence, abuse and neglect
how to help those who have been affected and enable safe outcomes.
Find out more about our training programmes.
Or contact us at info@visable.co.nz
Access to training
VisAble offers interactive training to help you develop a deeper understanding of these topics and why they’re important.
The training also enables you to explore how to apply the information at your place, with your staff (kaimahi) and in your services, building your organisational capability and your staff / kaimahi competencies.
We can also provide training for tāngata whaikaha Māori, disabled people, families, whānau and caregivers.
Find out more about our training and resources Or contact us at info@visable.co.nz.