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ActionStation report explores gap in funding for sexual violence services
May 17, 2019 at 11:37 AM
ActionStation has published a report exploring whether government funding for sexual violence services is adequate.
In the lead up to the Government's May 2019 Budget announcement, the report, For the Wellbeing of New Zealanders: An Urgent Call for Full Funding for Sexual Violence Prevention & Support Services (2019), calls on the government to significantly increase funding for sexual violence prevention, education, and survivor support services.
The report notes:
- "Successive governments have neglected sexual violence prevention and support services, and New Zealanders continue to suffer as a result;
- Government underfunding of sexual violence prevention and support services is hurting all of our communities, especially Māori, LGBTIQ folk, and our migrant and refugee whānau;
- Fully funding specialist sexual violence prevention and support agencies is crucial to supporting the mental health of young New Zealanders;
- New Zealanders want the government to do more to end sexual and domestic violence and have demonstrated this desire over and over again;
- Numerous government reports have acknowledged the damage of underfunding and called for urgent change;
- Intimate partner violence and child abuse currently costs New Zealand between $1.4 billion and $7 billion over one year;
- Limited and unstable government funding means services are stretched, stressed and overrun;
- People who need help are being put on long waiting lists. Support agencies are left having to make hard choices about who to help first;
- Prior to colonisation, sexual violence was rare within Māori communities. Now it is one of the leading causes of trauma among Māori women. Government underfunding of Kaupapa Māori services is creating further harm;
- People from migrant and refugee backgrounds need support from people who understand their culture yet specialist cultural services struggle to get by;
- Male survivors face challenges to accessing support, and need more support;
- People from rainbow communities need specialist services. It saves lives;
- Government underfunding is hindering healing and restoration;
- The government needs to ensure best-practice education for sexuality, healthy relationships and consent in all schools."
The report is based on:
- An analysis of recent government inquiries into the sexual violence sector;
- A review of existing community research;
- 11 in-depth interviews with a diverse range people who work in the sexual violence sector;
- An analysis of annual financial reports of 38 sexual violence support and intervention agencies.
For the sample of 38 agencies, government contracts covered a total of $24 million. The total expenditure of agencies was $31 million, leaving a gap between contract levels and true cost of running services of $7 million. As result of the inadequate funding, people often wait months for services.
