Women’s Refuge commends funding boost for Christchurch family violence pilot
8th February 2017
Women’s Refuge welcomes the announcement today from Minister’s Adams and Tolley of additional funding and support for
frontline services participating in the Christchurch Integrated Safety Response pilot.
"While we are yet to see the details of what this means for advocacy agencies, we are pleased that the Ministers have
acknowledged sector capacity concerns and are making significant moves to address these,” says Women’s Refuge Chief
Executive Dr Ang Jury.
“A collaborative approach is key to keeping women and children safe, however agencies, especially NGOs, must be
adequately resourced if the potential of the Christchurch pilot is to be fully realised. We are heartened by their move
to prioritise this need”.
The additional funding will boost frontline services, such as advocates to work with families, and will create extra
places in programmes that help perpetrators change their behaviour. The ISR process, a cross agency collaborative model
aimed at reducing family violence has been developed by the Ministerial Family and Sexual Violence Work Programme and is
currently being trialled in Canterbury and Waikato.
ENDS