Peter McGlashan conversation June 11th 2013

degree perhaps than in most other social problems."

Subject: Re: Some rudimentary answers to Owen's rhetorical questions in the press today.

From: peter.mcglashan@glennfamilyfoundation.org

Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:09:07 +1200

To: christopherpsmith@hotmail.co.nz

Hello Chris,

Thanks for getting in touch but Sir Owen is not the best person to be reading Professor Dutton's work as Owen is not across the complexity of the issue, despite being extremely passionate about solving it and making a difference. He is not familiar with what the Duluth Model is or the strengths or weaknesses of our current system in NZ, so it would not be appropriate, or helpful, for him to read the Professor's work at this stage. He is an extremely successful business man, with no background in this sector, so instead chose to set up the Inquiry to explore what is actually happening and what needs to be done. Therefore he won't be writing the blueprint, or producing the findings, but will be presenting the blueprint from the collective knowledge base.

What I'd encourage you to do is send all this information to the admin@glenninquiry.org email address so this can be passed on to the Inquiry team so it can be added to all the research that is being gathered up.

The purpose of the Glenn Inquiry is:

"If New Zealand was leading the world in addressing Child Abuse and Domestic Violence, what would that look like?"

The purpose was deliberately framed like that to allow a very frank and open conversation to take place, about what wasn't working with the current structure, theories, models (Duluth or otherwise), justice systems and interventions. This frank discussion and opportunity to speak to the public panels, is so that people like yourself can come forward and present your experiences and explain how the system has or hasn't worked for you and your family.

The reason for such a diverse range of people to join the Thinktank, from all walks of life and all round the world, including academics, activists, counsellors, advocates, survivors, lawyers, race relations experts, consultants and doctors, was so that many, many different views and voices could speak about their findings and research and what was or wasn't working in their work here and abroad.

My understanding is the Glenn Inquiry team suspected, and in many ways hoped, many of the myths and misnomers about Domestic Violence and Child Abuse would be dispelled by the public testimonies and diverse membership of the Thinktank. They suspected there may well be criticism of the lack of funding for Relationship counselling, inadequate early intervention option pre-incarceration (ie counselling, Family based-individualised solutions), a 'one size fits all' solution mentality, inadequate collaboration between agencies, insufficient consideration of complicating factors like mental health, alcohol and drug abuse, inadequate facilities for male victims of violence and inadequate voluntary intervention services and programs for men or women. Many of these things Professor Dutton mentions and they expected these things to come out, however, for the integrity of the findings and the robustness of the Blueprint, it is important those theories are proven by the findings coming from listening to the peoples voices and gauging the true feeling in the community, so people like yourself who are passionate about this, also get to contribute to the knowledge base considered when the Blueprint is compiled.

This entire process was based on striving to ascertain the Best Practice Protocols worldwide and implementing them here, chosen separate from political, academic or historical influences or bias, but based on fact, real data and genuine findings.

I, and my team, at the Glenn Family Foundation are not involved with the Glenn Inquiry in any way, with our focus being on other work for the foundation, so can I please ask that you direct all future correspondence on this matter to the Glenn Inquiry directly through their admin@glenninquiry.org email address.

Regards,