Workforce Survey 2026 - Section 1 Part 1: Your Work - Ministry of Justice

Section 1 Part 1: Your Work

First, we have a few questions to help us understand the type of work you do, and the people and communities you work with, to inform the Centre’s system monitoring.

By “work”, we mean paid or unpaid support you give to people impacted by family violence and / or sexual violence or to people who have used violence including, but not limited to, advocacy, social work, counselling, legal and justice responses, housing support, health and addictions services, whanau-centred responses, rehabilitation, healing and behaviour change. "Work" also includes paid or unpaid activities to manage or support staff, or administration, prevention, funding, policy or research roles related to family violence and/or sexual violence.

If you have multiple roles, please answer the following questions for your main paid or voluntary role.

1. In your current main role, what sort of work do you primarily do or support others to do?

“Support others to do” means your role helps, enables, manages, advises, coordinates, funds, develops, or builds the capability of people who deliver these services, even if you do not provide the services directly yourself.

(Required) Specialist family violence and/or sexual violence services (e.g., your work focuses primarily on preventing or responding to family violence and/or sexual violence) Generalist services (e.g., not a specialist in family violence and/or sexual violence, but your work involves promoting wellbeing, health, and/or equity and you may come into contact with people who’ve been impacted by family violence and/or sexual violence) Neither – I do not contribute to wellbeing, health, equitable outcomes, or prevent or respond to family violence and/or sexual violence Don’t know

2. In your current main role, which of these types of work do you primarily do or support others to do?

Please select all that apply

(Required) Work to stop family violence and/or sexual violence before it has happened (i.e. primary prevention) Work to respond immediately after family violence and/or sexual violence has happened (i.e. crisis response) Work to support people’s long-term recovery, rehabilitation, and healing from family violence and/or sexual violence (i.e. long-term healing) Work to improve wellbeing, inclusion, and/or equitable outcomes within communities None of the above

3. What sort of services do you and your organisation provide?

Please answer even if you and your organization work in primary prevention, i.e before harm occurs, or in generalist/community services where you may encounter people impacted by family violence and/or sexual violence even if it is not the primary presenting issue. If this is you, please answer based on whether your work primarily relates to family violence, sexual violence, or both.

“People impacted” includes victim-survivors, people who have used violence, and their friends and whānau.

(Required) Mostly work with or for people impacted by family violence Mostly work with or for people impacted by sexual violence Work with or for people impacted by both family violence and sexual violence I do not work with or for people impacted by family violence and/or sexual violence