Vine Quick Reads: 2 October 2026

Vine Quick Reads: 2 October 2026

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa.

2026 Family Violence and Sexual Violence Workforce Pulse Survey remains open

The Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention is still inviting responses to the third annual Family Violence and Sexual Violence Workforce Pulse Survey. This voluntary, confidential survey is open to anyone who offers paid or unpaid support to people who use or experience violence. The survey aims to improve the Centre’s understanding of the family violence and sexual violence workforces in Aotearoa. It also provides an opportunity for respondents to share their experiences and offer feedback on working within the system as a whole.

The survey closes 16 October 2026.

Tākai, online resource supporting whānau and tamariki under 5, has relaunched

Tākai, a website offering free tools and information for anyone who supports whānau or tamariki under five, has relaunched. Tākai brings together trusted parenting resources, tools and learning opportunities on topics such as conscious parenting, tīpuna parenting, brain development, Pacific parenting, play, supporting young parents and more.

Consultation open on bills seeking to change how Te Tiriti o Waitangi is given legal effect in law

The Justice Select Committee is jointly consulting on the following three bills:

• References to Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi (Repeals) Amendment Bill, which would repeal references to the Treaty from several pieces of legislation;
• References to Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi (Standardisation) Amendment Bill, which seeks to implement standardised drafting to Treaty provisions and reference to the Treaty without substantively changing their legal effect;
• References to Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi (Strength of Legislative Obligations) Amendment Bill, which seeks to amend the weighting of Treaty provisions to a single standard of “take into account” across multiple pieces of legislation.

The committee has taken the approach of issuing one joint call for submissions in recognition of the closely related nature of these bills. For more, see Te Kāhui Tika Tangata | Human Rights Commission’s media release.

There is no set closing date, but the committee encourages the public to submit their feedback by 1 December 2026.

New report explores link between social determinants of ill health and violence prevention in Mununjali First Nations community in Australia

ANROWS has released a new research report, Healthy minds, healthy bodies, healthy relationships: A health service to address the violence-prevention and healing needs of the Mununjali people and their community (2026). This community-led, participatory action-based research project aimed to understand the health profile of members of the Mununjali First Nations community who use violence. It found that to adequately address the use of violence, the intersecting social determinants of ill health must also be addressed.

Te Aorerekura Action Plan Update 2026/2027 released

The Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention has released the Te Aorerekura Action Plan Update 2026/2027. This sets out the following focus points for the year ahead:

• Helping people get support sooner
• Supporting lasting behaviour change
• Preventing sexual violence
• Building workforce skills
• Targeting funding.

The Update also details five decisive actions, related to the five focus areas, and 18 supporting actions to be completed in the 2026/2027 financial year. Alongside each action it sets out who will be leading, who will be partnering, and when the action is intended to be completed.

New service to help victim-survivors confidentially report sexual violence

Tika is a new, free legal service for anyone over the age of 18 who has experienced sexual violence. Victim-survivors can report their experiences to Tika confidentially and for free. Tika will then look for patterns and connections across other reports to build stronger cases against repeat perpetrators. For more, see Tika co-founder, Alison Mau’s, interview with 1News about the new service.

UN calls for input on state of human rights for LGBT+ persons deprived of liberty

The United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity has issued a call for input on the human rights situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and other gender-diverse (LGBT) persons deprived of liberty to inform their report to the Human Rights Council. This call seeks information, data and analysis concerning:

• Legal policy and frameworks
• Violence, discrimination and conditions
• Institutional practice, participation and accountability
• Overlapping forms of discrimination
• Data evidence and good practices.

For the purposes of this call, ‘deprivation of liberty’ includes, but is not limited to prisons and pretrial detention, police custody, immigration and asylum detention, psychiatric and mental health institutions, and residential social care institutions.

Submission deadline: 30 November 2026.