We recommend that: For mainstream services this will require: • • providing support for victims to remain in a home that is adapted to their needs, and in the community that meets their accessibility needs • sustainable funding for tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people-led organisations working in family and sexual violence prevention and response • access to sustainably funded specialised inclusive services • resources for awareness and prevention activities co-designed with tāngata whaikaha Māori, Deaf and disabled people, and produced in accessible formats • staff of all crisis and therapeutic services having the knowledge and skills to work with disabled people • ensuring that relevant, up-to-date information about support and services, including information about legal processes, is available in accessible formats • ensuring the development of auditable best practice service standards • including tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people in ongoing evaluation and development of services to better meet needs • ensuring access to trained and resourced tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people to conduct accessibility and other audits of violence prevention and response services to ensure that they are inclusive and accessible, and staff having access to appropriate training • ensuring that mainstream refuges are fully accessible for disabled women who do not require 24-hour support and for women with disabled dependent children of any age. • • in partnership with disabled people, workforce competencies about violence and abuse, the harms of violence, the gendered dynamics of violence and violence against tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled adults and children be developed at pace training programmes, produced by tāngata whaikaha Māori and disabled people are developed to build and embed these competencies and training as described above be made mandatory for all people working across the violence prevention and response sector, including police, lawyers and judges; researchers who want to research disabled people’s circumstances; the disability sector; the wider health sector; and social services and be embedded • training as described above be embedded in all tertiary education for social workers, psychologists, health professionals, counsellors, lawyers, and in police training • training about the mental health effects of sexual and family violence should be incorporated into the initial and ongoing professional development training of all health, legal, therapeutic and social service professionals, including psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health and drug and alcohol service staff, judges, lawyers, court staff, police, social workers, therapists and counsellors. 6. Support a twin-track approach to violence response and prevention Twin track one: Ensure all services and information are accessible A twin-track approach to service provision and interventions responding to violence, directs that mainstream services and supports are made inclusive of, and fully accessible to, disabled people, and specialised services and supports that are specific to disabled people, including for disabled children of victims, are also available. Both tracks must be grounded in Te Tiriti, and so must be developed in partnership with tāngata whaikaha Māori and effectively meet their needs. Acting now for a violence and abuse free future 55