Referrals for strengthening safety services made by courts in New Zealand

The family violence programmes which the Ministry funds, as per the Family Violence Act 2018 and Family Violence (Amendments) Act 2018, are:
- Non-violence programmes for respondents to Protection Orders and (in some circumstances) for defendants to charges of family violence offending
- Safety programmes for adults and children covered by a Protection Order, including an assessment and programme sessions
- Strengthening safety services for adult applicants waiting for the outcome of Protection Order applications and for adult victim/survivors of family violence offences in the criminal court.

Confirmed referral:
- For safety programmes, this is the number of all referrals that are sent to providers are considered confirmed referrals.
- For non-violence programmes: this is the number of confirmed referrals are made to providers once the Protection Order has been served on the respondent and proof of service is received by courts.

Assessment completed: An assessment is concluded when a participant is engaged with the provider and an assessment outcome form outlining the type and length of programme is submitted to the Court.
Programme completed:
- For safety programmes: this is the total number of participants who concluded an assessment (safety assessment outcome form is submitted) and then completed a programme.
- For non-violence programmes: this is the total number of participants who concluded an assessment by settling the terms of attendance and then completed a programme.

This data is extracted based on the year of each programme referral, assessment or completion.

The assessment and programme completion data is not directly linked to the confirmed referrals data as the referrals for these may have occurred in the previous year. As such it would be inappropriate to calculate the percentage of assessments or programmes completed each year from this data.

At the URL provided, navigate to the 'Justice services' heading. Under "Family violence programmes" click on 'View or download the family violence programmes data tables [XLSX, 69 KB]'.

This dataset includes information on the number of referrals, assessments and completions of non-violence programmes for people who have used violence, as well as safety programmes, and the strengthening safety service for people who have experienced or witnessed violence.
Family violence programmes include non-violence programmes for people who have used violence, as well as safety programmes, and the strengthening safety service for adults and children where there has been court intervention (a Protection Order or criminal proceedings).