2025 kicks off with connection and collaboration!

Join us for our first cross-sector hui, where you can meet up with other colleagues undertaking similar mahi, meet new people and strengthen existing relationships.

This session we’re making time for a very important conversation which will focus on the Importance of Accurate Language in Responding to Family Violence. We will explore how the way in which language is used to report family violence can influence how practitioners respond; it can continue to conceal violence or help expose it for what it is.  This is an important consideration in our everyday conversations but even more so when we are making choices of how to report on acts of violence in official notes and reports. This conversation will be led and facilitated by members of the CFVC Steering Group.

We’d love to have you, and your thoughts or experiences, contribute to the conversation.

Attendance is free, but we ask that you register to help us with seating and catering. Register your attendance here.

If, after registering, you find that you can no longer attend, please email canterbury.fvc@barnardos.org.nz to cancel your place.