lives, and that their outcomes can be improved by helping women rebuild and maintain relationships, or extricate themselves from violent or dysfunctional relationships.” The recognition by the Corrections of the particular needs and vulnerabilities of the women in its care, and of the need to empower women through trauma informed practices and a focus on relationships, is very positive. It is backed up by the findings of a 2016 study commissioned by Corrections, which identified five key ‘lessons’ for the management of women in prison: • Women need a different approach to men which is relational, collaborative and responsive to their unique needs, and which is also sensitive to the diversity of their needs and characteristics; • Women benefit from collaborative approaches to planning where staff have sufficient contact time for trust and engagement to be built, and meaningful input sought; • In designing rehabilitation and reintegration pathways that work for women, their lynch-pin need(s) and responsivity factors such as prior exposure to trauma, need to be properly identified and targeted in the right order; • Women’s management should be relational; having good relationships with staff where women felt [sic] informed and valued, and able to address issues with family/whänau helped build their engagement and put them in a better place to address their offending needs; • Staff need to be properly supported to work with women by receiving specialised training on women’s unique risks, needs and responsivity factors, and by having clear bounds around their roles.5 These important suggestions are supported by the literature and grounded in professional experience. As these are uncontested, this report takes, as a given, that the particular vulnerabilities and needs of women in prison are known to, and accepted by, Corrections. 5 14 Beavan, Marianne. (2017) Collaborative, relational and responsive: Principles for the case management of women in prison. Practice: The New Zealand Corrections Journal Volume 5 Issue 2, November 2017.