Children and young people are loved, safe and nurtured
Budget 2019 provided funding for work to understand the needs of diverse communities in order to develop future violence prevention programmes. This includes youth, the LGBTQIA+ (rainbow) community, disabled people, new migrants, and older people.
The process for working with diverse communities has been approved. It involves co-design and draws on the expertise of Joint Venture agencies and engagement with the communities themselves, to understand and work from their needs and preferences for how best to use this funding. This could include more supporting innovative community action underway, and/or developing proposals for future Budget processes.
This process will start with the disabled community.