VisAble’s role
SAFEGUARDING / WHAKAHAUMARUTIA
VisAble doesn’t provide safeguarding services directly.
Our role in assisting you
Our role is to provide information and advice to help you find the right agency to support you.
If you’re unsure which agency to approach directly, VisAble will help you find the right organisation to respond to your situation of concern. We’ll listen carefully to understand your needs and help you find the right safeguarding service for you.
VisAble’s role with safeguarding agencies
VisAble works with several agencies to help them develop an effective safeguarding response. We do this through providing advice, guidance, training and resources, and in partnering up together to develop, implement and promote best practice.
VisAbledoesn’t directly provide the safeguarding response (intervention); instead, we support other agencies to respond effectively.
Our role is to work with other agencies to build sector capability in effective safeguarding practices.
If you need safeguarding support, these arethe safeguarding agencies which can help.
If you’re an organisation that wants more information and training on effective safeguarding principles, policies, procedures and practices, please see our training and events, and either book online or contact VisAble to discuss options.
Safeguarding / whakahaumarutia aims to
protect a person’s right to live safely, free from harm.
VisAble’s Safeguarding Framework
This diagram helps explain safeguarding / whakahaumarutia to people who like images, pictures or diagrams, when seeking to understand a system.
The diagram’s V and A represent VisAble’s name: i.e. making violence, abuse and neglect and their impacts visible and enabling an intervention – in this case, safeguarding Adults at Risk from abuse.
About the Safeguarding Framework diagram
On the left-hand side, the "V" stands for “Visible”. It shows safeguarding across the different levers - from prevention through to responding to violence, abuse and neglect - the pointy end of reducing family and sexual violence (FVSV).
The left hand side of the diagram is all about who to refer to (or make contact with) for safeguarding / whakahaumarutia support.
On the right-hand, the "A" is all about the purpose of the safeguarding work: the aims, and actions and how we enable others to achieve the outcomes needed.
It all starts with keeping the person at the centre of the intervention (personal) – showing that what enables safety is community and relationships, as ultimately these impact the effectiveness of the services that are delivered to disabled people and the outcomes that are achieved.
The outcome being aimed for is that of a “systems change”
Such change needs to be centred on and/or driven by disabled people.
We aim that it would result in the establishment of policies and legislation specific to Adults at Risk, that would reduce violence, abuse and neglect.
Ideally, this would result in government-funded services (similar to those in Oranga Tamariki and Age Concern) where situations of concern could be notified and actioned.
More about VisAble’s role in building sector capability
VisAble’s main role is to help agencies in the disability sector and in the Family Violence and Sexual Violence (FVSV) sector to develop effective safeguarding principles, policies, procedures and practices – including the right knowledge and skills (competencies). This is called “capability building”.
This mahi helps build other organisations’ capability across Aotearoa New Zealand, through our Kaitiakitanga approach – enabling these organisations to work effectively with disabled people.
VisAble works with SAFA-based organisations and Family Violence and Sexual Violence (FVSV) community organisations to help ensure accessible and inclusive services for disabled people and tāngata whaikaha Māori.
