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Survey Reports

Read what it's really like for women and children after they leave abuse. Backbone's reports are based on the stories, views and experiences of hundreds of women and their children, given anonymously via Backbone surveys. Their voices are largely unpublished elsewhere as women and children are often forbidden by Court orders from talking publicly about their situations. 

 

survey reports

 
 

October 2026

Report: “Daddy says no” : Mothers’ accounts of abusers blocking and compromising therapeutic services for children victim-survivors

 

May 2026

Report: Just ticking the box: Victim-survivor insights into the uses and abuses of stopping-violence programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

April 2024

Report: Make it about us: Victim-survivors' recommendations for building a safer police response to intimate partner violence, family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

July 2022

Report: Shining Light on the Shadow. The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on abuser behaviour

 

December 2021

Report: Victim-Survivor Feedback on the Government's National Strategy and Action Plans to Eliminate Family and Sexual Violence and Abuse

 

August 2020

Report: Victim-Survivor Perspectives on Longer-Term Support After Experiencing Violence and Abuse

 

May 2018

Report: Seen And Not Heard - Lawyer For Child

 

December 2017

Report: Seen And Not Heard: Children In The Family Court - Force

 

‍September 2017

Report: “Don’t Tell Me Your Problems” The Family Court Complaints And Appeals Landscape

 

June 2017

Report: Out of the Frying Pan And Into The Fire -Family Court Survey Report

 

June 2017

Report: All Eyes On The Family Court