Te Aorerekura Implementation Plan
Te Aorerekura - Eliminating Family Violence and Sexual Violence
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Te Aorerekura is the first ever National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence, complemented by an Action Plan outlining 40 initial government actions to eliminate family violence and sexual violence in New Zealand. Te Aorerekura outlines the transformational changes needed to address family violence and sexual violence and calls for locally led and whānau-centred responses. It sets out a new collective path for government, tangata whenua, specialist sectors, and communities to eliminate family violence and sexual violence.
To improve the whole-of-government approach to family violence and sexual violence, Te Puna Aonui was formed, comprising agencies who are responsible for implementing Te Aorerekura:
- Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) | Te Kaporeihana Āwhina Hunga Whare
- Ara Poutama Aotearoa | Department of Corrections
- Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o Te Mātauranga
- Ministry of Health | Manatū Hauora
- Ministry of Justice | Tāhū o te Ture
- Ministry of Social Development (MSD) | Te Manatū Whakahiato Ora
- New Zealand Police | Ngā Pirihimana O Aotearoa
- Oranga Tamariki | Ministry for Children
- Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development
There are four associate agencies:
- Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet | Te Tari O Te Pirimia Me Te Komiti Matau
- Ministry for Women | Manatū Wāhine
- Ministry for Pacific Peoples | Te Manatū mō Ngā Iwi o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa
- Ministry for Ethnic Communities | Te Tari Mātāwaka
Our Chief Executive, Jeremy Lightfoot, is on Te Puna Aonui board as the Secretary for Corrections.
In December 2024, a second action plan, Te Aorerekura Action Plan 2025 – 2030, was released.
A key focus of the change articulated in our own Hōkai Rangi strategy is to reduce harm and shift to an approach centred in Te Ao Māori, which is more responsive to the needs of the people we manage and their whānau. Hōkai Rangi and Te Aorerekura both identify the need to ensure that individuals and their whānau are at the centre of responses, with an increased focus on community-led practice, strengths-based approaches, healing, and restoration of mana.
Our Implementation Plan outlines how we will build on our existing work, recognising that a significant proportion of people on sentences and orders have lived experience of violence. Grounded in mātauranga Māori, the plan acknowledges the need to be driven through the lens of te Ao Māori.