The Backbone Collective
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Surveys

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.

Surveys

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.

 
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Survey: NZ Police response to family and sexual violence - CLOSED


Improving the NZ Police response to family and sexual violence

On 1 September 2022 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. The survey closed 31 October 2022.

The report from our survey was released on on 4 April 2024, entitled: “Make it about us: Victim-survivors' recomendations for building a safer police response to intimate partner violence, family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa New Zealand”

Read the report here
Earlier Event: May 17
Survey: Feedback on the Government's National Strategy and Action Plans - CLOSED
Later Event: June 25
Survey: Barriers to children accessing counselling and other therapeutic services - CLOSED