The Green Party is calling on the Government to abandon their proposal to cut a third of the workforce at the Centre for Family Violence and Sexual Violence Prevention.
"You cannot say family and sexual violence is a priority while you gut the agency set up to end it," says Green Party Co-leader Marama Davidson.
"The Centre exists because no single agency could tackle this crisis alone, and if a third of the workforce driving Te Aorerekura, the national strategy, is cut, that coordination simply does not happen."
"This Government is systematically withdrawing from the work of preventing family and sexual violence. Specialist prevention providers are losing funding and now the national agency meant to hold it all together is being hollowed out."
"At the same time, the Government are cutting funding to the very community organisations who are having to pick up the increased demand, without the increased government support they deserve."
"Every dollar we fail to invest in stopping violence before it starts is paid for many times over, in our hospitals, our schools, our courts, our prisons, and in the lives of tamariki who grow up with violence in their homes."
"The Government needs to abandon these cuts and properly fund the prevention workforce, in the Centre and in communities," says Davidson.
