Stopping Violence

The Stopping Violence work programme seeks to: 

• strengthen the accountability mechanisms that hold people with violent behaviour responsible for their behaviour,
• and provide the right intervention and service to change violent behaviour. 

Stalking law  

The Justice Select Committee reported back to Parliament in June and the new law is now progressing through the legislative process. The Ministry of Justice will lead the implementation of the law.  

Review of current interventions for people who use violence

The cross-agency working group has scoped the review of current interventions for people who use violence and work is underway to:

• develop a current state report
• procure a supplier to deliver an evidence and literature review on stopping violence services, and
• engage with key stakeholders on the current and future state of interventions for people who use violence.

The relationship between this project and other actions in the Action Plan will also be explored.