Released 26 May 2022

This is one of two family violence capability frameworks which support organisations and workers to respond to family violence in Aotearoa New Zealand.

These frameworks provide information that offers a shared understanding of family violence and sets standards and essential knowledge to guide and support people and organisations to respond to family violence in safe and effective ways.

The frameworks are the first step in delivering Te Aorerekura – the National Strategy and Action Plan to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence. They are the first in a set of tools to help us achieve Shift 3: Towards skilled, culturally competent and sustainable workforces.

The two frameworks are:
"Specialist Family Violence Organisational Standards (SOS) - #7643 and "Entry to Expert Family Violence Capability Framework (E2E) - #7644.

The frameworks reflect the enormous contribution made by the specialist family violence and sexual violence sectors to the safety, autonomy and wellbeing of tangata whenua and tauiwi, whānau and families, and diverse communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. They were developed collaboratively by people who work in the specialist sector including tangata whenua, and representatives of victim-survivors and diverse communities, and government.

The Joint Venture agencies will begin implementing the frameworks across their workforces.

Collectively, these frameworks build on the 2017 Family Violence, Sexual Violence and Violence Within Whānau Workforce Capability Framework (#5459). They help organisations and workforces assess whether they can safely respond, strengthen and support healing, prevent further violence and enable the wellbeing of people impacted by family violence. (From the website). Record #7643