Election 2017 - Party Policies - Justice, Law and Order - Domestic Violence
27th May 17, 9:23am
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Domestic Violence
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- Provide certain employees who are victims of domestic violence with a statutory right to request a variation of their working arrangements.
- Provide employees who are victims of domestic violence with a minimum entitlement to paid leave for the purpose of dealing with the effects of being victims of domestic violence.
- Prohibit discrimination on the grounds of being a victim of domestic violence.
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- Adequately fund the sexual violence and family violence community partners to deliver crisis intervention to both those that suffer from and those that use violence and family that are impacted by violence.
- Support the development and enhancement of programs that help our children resolve the issues caused by the trauma of experiencing and witnessing violence; and ensure over time that resources are directed to breaking the cycle by dealing with the issues that children present.
- Take a long-term strategic approach to ending violence; and focus on crisis intervention in the first instance, and include an increasing focus on primary and tertiary prevention over time.
- Review the family court reforms that have created inequity and an inability for some to engage in safe and effective processes to resolve their family issues.
- Support and enhance and commit to the networking of family violence services to better provide a coordinated response and also the on the ground thinking for the development and implementation of sound and effective policy.
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- Increase funding for abuse survivors to immediately access specialist services, treatment and support.
- Provide lifelong, free access to therapeutic based support for victims and their families.
- Establish 120 new navigator positions under this kaupapa to extend Tu Pono: Te Mana Kaha o Te Whānau - the Whānau Ora Facilitator approach that enables whānau to eliminate violence from within their lives.
- Educate children and young people about what child abuse and domestic violence is and how to protect themselves.
- Address the urgent need for a greater investment by government in whānau restoration programmes that address sexual violence and ‘whole of whānau’ initiatives to ensure the active participation and engagement of all whānau members.
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- Made it easier to get a protection order.
- Maximised the opportunities of Police safety orders.
- New offences to prosecute violence.
- A focus on getting in early, and connecting perpetrators with the help they need to stop the abuse.
- Rolling out a new approach to better identify risk and recognise the patterns of family violence.
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