The Backbone Collective is the first and only organisation to monitor the effectiveness of the system through the eyes of women and children escaping violence. Backbone surveys hundreds of women via its safe and confidential online platform, so we are able to gather extensive amounts of information on many issues for relatively low cost.
Women see the Backbone surveys as a powerful way to have their views taken into account and put forward to promote change.
Pleas view our public surveys below. From time to time Backbone undertakes other smaller survey and consultation projects which are not widely advertised or shared on our website. Reports related to these consultations are sometimes included on our website and you can head over to the reports page to read all our published reports.
A Backbone anonymous survey designed to find out victim-survivors’ thoughts on stopping-violence programmes and interventions designed for people who use violence.
Backbone’s latest anonymous questionnaire asks about the barriers to children accessing counselling and other therapeutic services to help them recover from family violence and/or sexual violence.
Backbone released an anonymous survey, for women, trans and non-binary people, who are 16+, live in Aotearoa New Zealand and have experienced family violence or sexual violence, to share their feedback on how the police responded to them and ideas for how to improve the police response to family and sexual violence.
An anonymous survey, for people who identify as female, are 16+ and have experienced family violence or sexual violence, to share their feedback on what should be included in the Government’s National Strategy and Action Plans to eliminate family and sexual violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.
November 1, 2019 Backbone releases its fourth anonymous survey asking people who identify as female to share their ideas about what kinds of support and services are needed to help victim/survivors get safe, recover and rebuild their lives. The survey closes 1 December 2019.
Backbone would love to hear from you if you identify as a female are aged 16+ who has experienced family violence.
October 2, 2017, the Backbone releases its third anonymous survey on the Family Court, asking mothers how their children have been effected by the Family Court. The survey closes 31 October 2017.
Backbone would love to hear from you if you are a mother who has experienced violence and abuse, who no longer lives with your abuser and who has child/en who are or who have been part of Family Court proceedings.
April 7, 2017, the Backbone releases its second survey on the Family Court that was designed with the help of women members. We will draw our first set of results on midnight Sunday April 30, 2017. Don't worry if you miss this deadline as we will continue collecting surveys from women after this date for future reference.
In December 2016, The Backbone Collective released its first survey that was designed to collect feedback and ideas from survivors on how we should design and build The Backbone Collective.
