May
25
to Jun 2
Report: Just ticking the box: Victim-survivor insights into the uses and abuses of stopping-violence programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand
May 2026 - the State’s expectations and uses of stopping-violence programmes (SVPs) are currently not making many abusers less dangerous and are putting victim-survivors (including children) at risk of ongoing and intensifying violence and abuse.
That is the overall finding from our August/September 2025 anonymous online survey of 471 women and non-binary victim-survivors throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, including 172 responses from victim-survivors who had an abuser who attended an SVP.