Vine Quick Reads: 28 March 2025

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

Family Violence Risk and Safety Practice Framework released.

Te Puna Aonui’s Family Violence Risk and Safety Practice Framework (2025) has been released. This framework supports the implementation of the Family Violence Act 2018 and benchmarks the organisational and workforce capabilities needed to provide a consistent and integrated response to risk.

Call for experts to aid development of family violence skill standards and micro-credentials

Toitū Te Waiora | Workforce Development Council are calling for submissions from family violence and sexual violence subject matter experts to contribute to the development of new family violence skill standards. The skill standards will provide the foundation for a structured qualification pathway, starting with a micro-credential based on the Family Violence Risk and Safety Practice Framework. This work is supported by Te Puna Aonui. See the recent pānui from Toitū Te Waiora for further information. Submissions are due before 13 April 2025.

New report: Understanding re-victimisation through an intersectional lens (2024)

Te Puna Haumaru | New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science have released a new report: Understanding re-victimisation through an intersectional lens (2024). The report examines the socio-demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity, disability status, sexual identity) of people who have been re-victimised to identify where co-occurrences of characteristics intensify risk of re-victimisation. This report drew from data collected over 5 rounds of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey. Associate Professor Lisa Tompson, a member of Te Puna Haumaru, presented on this research.

2025 He Pounga Waihoe Nā ō Mātua Symposium

Te Atawhai o Te Ao | Independent Māori Institute for Environment and Health are calling for abstracts for their 2025 He Pounga Waihoe Nā ō Mātua Symposium. The symposium will explore Māori experiences of intergenerational trauma, recovery and healing. Te Atawhai o Te Ao welcome abstracts from current Master’s and doctoral Māori students, those who have completed their studies, community researchers, whānau, hapū, iwi, service providers and others interested in the theme. Information on the submission process is available online. Submissions are currently open, and presenters will be confirmed 5 May 2025.

Updated official statistics released by Ministry of Justice

Tāhū o Te Ture | Ministry of Justice have released their most recent official statistics on criminal convictions and sentencing for the calendar year ending 31 December 2024. The Ministry’s data tables webpage summarises key trends about people with finalised charges, including children and young people inside and outside of Youth Court. It offers downloadable data tables, including specific tables for sexual offences, family violence offences, and for protection order applications. These data tables contain statistics for the last 10 years. For more on statistics, see our He tatauranga/He Tauanga | Violence Statistics page.

New research from Women’s Refuge on Traumatic Brain Injury and Intimate Partner Violence

The National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges have published a new report: Traumatic brain injury and intimate partner violence in Aotearoa (2025). This report examines the impacts of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) on victims and their experiences of help seeking. It offers insight into how intimate partner violence can result in undiagnosed TBIs and complicate victims’ recoveries, and highlights the need to address intimate partner violence and TBIs jointly. See more from the Safer When, Safer How? project, as well as their work on risk and safety.

Indigenous statistics - new open access book and related article

An open access second edition of Indigenous statistics: from data deficits to data sovereignty (2025) has been released. This edition builds on the first and has expanded theoretically, methodologically, and empirically in response to the significant changes to the global data landscape. Relatedly, University of Waikato’s Te Kotahi Research has published a new research brief: The Māori Data Privacy Framework: How useful is it for hapū? (2025) as part of the Tikanga in Technology project.