5. Develop training and ensure continuous
improvement and training, and make
resources available.
a. Develop qualifications, competencies
and ongoing training that uphold Te
Tiriti and human rights. Disabled people
should lead these developments.
b. Ensure continuous improvement and
ongoing training across disability, justice
and family violence sectors.
c. Sufficiently resource disability services to
ensure appropriately qualified staff can
be employed and standards are upheld.
d. Develop all disability services in
partnership with disabled people.
e. Ensure all information developed about
policies and practices is in accessible
formats and that all service users can
easily access.
6. Support a twin-track approach to violence
response and prevention.
a. Twin track one. Ensure all services and
information are accessible. These include
things such as improved services and
resources (including staff and access to
training), sustainable funding, relevant
and up-to-date information, and best
practice standards.
b. Twin track two. Make available a variety
of specialist prevention initiatives. Two
initiatives are an integrated community
response to safeguarding adults,
and therapeutic services for tāngata
whaikaha Māori, disabled people, adults
at risk and disabled children.
7. Keep children safe from harm.
a. Enhance resourcing and support for
inclusive education.
b. Ensure educators understand
neurodiversity, mental distress and a
social model of disability.
c. Ensure disabled children are able to
access relationship, sexuality and health
education.
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d. Enhance support for parents of disabled
children and ensure access to equipment
and services.
e. Provide therapeutic support for children
exposed to or experiencing violence.
f.
Embed disability rights expertise in
agencies such as Oranga Tamariki, and
ensure all public service and health
agencies understand disabled people’s
right to parent and disabled children’s
right to family.
Recommendations addressing structural
drivers of violence that would help with
prevention
8. Make structural changes to enhance the
prevention of violence and abuse. Such
structural issues are power/powerlessness,
invisibility, lack of access to the social and
economic determinants of health, and
stigma and discrimination. These issues
drive increased rates of disability and
violence.
9. Ensure all actions are grounded in Te
Tiriti o Waitangi and human rights. The
Whakamanahia Te Tiriti, Whakahaumarutia
te Tangata (companion report) informs these
key high-level recommendations and offers
further recommendations for ensuring a
Tiriti-based approach.
a. Realise the promises of Te Tiriti and
rights for tāngata whaikaha Māori under
the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP)
and the UNCRPD.
b. Value indigenous worldviews with the
aim of ensuring that tikanga and Te
Ao Māori inform programme design,
implementation and evaluation.
c. Prioritise tino rangatiratanga, selfdetermination and autonomous
decision-making made by tāngata
whaikaha Māori, whānau and
communities.
d. Support public education of Te Tiriti and
human rights, including the UNCRPD.