Vine Quick Reads: 25 September 2025

Vine Quick Reads: 25 September 2025

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa.

New resource to support the sexual health and wellbeing of people with intellectual disabilities

Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa has released Bodies, Boundaries and Being Me | Ngā Tinana, Ngā Pātanga Ko Au, a free resource to support the sexual health and wellbeing of people with intellectual disabilities. The resource includes an 8-module programme designed to be used and delivered by disability organisations, kura, and schools working with people with intellectual disabilities aged 13 years and older. Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa offers training for facilitators to enable them to confidently and capably deliver the programme to people with intellectual disabilities. For more, see Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa’s media release.

UN call for inputs on guidelines to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) at the United Nations has issued a call for inputs on guidelines to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage and has provided a list of 7 key questions. Submissions will inform OHCHR’s action-oriented guidelines for States to effectively apply a human rights-based approach to the prevention and elimination of child, early and forced marriage. Submissions are due 10am, 11 October 2025 NZ time.

2025 Family Violence and Sexual Violence Workforce Pulse Survey still open, results for 2024 Survey released

The 2025 Family Violence and Sexual Violence Workforce Pulse Survey remains open until 8 October 2025. Undertaken by the Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention, the survey collects information to better understand the sexual violence and family violence workforces in Aotearoa and to support reporting on the second Action Plan. The survey findings will be reported and published online early in 2026. The Centre have also released their 2024 Workforce Survey results. The results are presented for all respondents as well as being aggregated further into kaimahi Māori and Pacific practitioners.

New Ministry of Justice research and fact sheet on sexual violence

Te Tāhū o te Ture | Ministry of Justice has released a report and a factsheet looking at sexual violence.

• Report: Progression of reported sexual assaults through the criminal justice system (2025)
• Factsheet: Sexual assault victims: experieinces of women and men (2025).

For more, see the  Ministry of Justice’s family violence and sexual violence research page.