The Inquiry was asked to examine whether government agencies took all practicable steps to protect the safety and welfare of the Phillips children. Including measures to prevent their disappearance, and whether agencies responded appropriately and in a timely manner to locate the children following their disappearance. The Inquiry also examined whether agencies engaged appropriately with the Family Court, as well as how Tom Phillips obtained and maintained a firearms licence and access to...

Good Shepherd have launched a campaign to raise awareness about economic abuse. We are calling on Ministers, Members of Parliament, and Government officials to recognise financial control, ruined credit, withheld payments and coerced loans and debt as forms of family violence, and to improve our laws and systems that entrap victim-survivors and perpetuate the harm caused by these forms of family violence. Policy recommendations have been developed in close partnership with the National...

The Ministry of Social Development has released a new resource. The toolkit aims to mobilise groups and organisations that work with ethnically diverse communities to: ·help focus their efforts and resources on actions that are most likely to prevent FVSV and create lasting positive change ·provide practical guidance for planning, implementing and evaluating community mobilisation initiatives ·implement tools and activities to help assess progress, measure change and strengthen their...