The safety of the community is our top priority.

A person will not be permitted to reside at the whare if we think the risk to public safety could not be safely managed.

Our kaimahi will provide 24-7 onsite wrap-around support for residents, with at least two staff members on-shift at all times covering both 24 and 26 Rata Street and 28a - 28e Treadwell Street. We have operating outdoor CCTV cameras to monitor activities on each property.

Residents will be selected through a careful and robust assessment and selection process and must be committed and motivated to future-focused transformational change and leading healthy, safe and resilient lives.

Men with current or historic convictions for sexual offending against children or adults will not be eligible for the service at any time.

Residents must commit to living by the tikanga and kawa of our kaupapa and Ara Poutama Aotearoa and the New Zealand Police will be responsible for any enforcement action taken if residents place themselves, other residents, our kaimahi or the community at risk.

Ara Poutama Aotearoa and Police will act swiftly to address any actions by residents that place themselves, our kaimahi or the public at risk, or breach any parole or sentencing requirements. Unsafe or antisocial behaviour will not be tolerated and could lead to being withdrawn from the whare and facing enforcement action before a court or the New Zealand Parole Board.

Residents will be required to demonstrate that they are making efforts to distance themselves from any gang connections and will not be permitted into the whare if they are continuing to engage with active gang members. Tāne living at the whare are not permitted at anytime, to wear or display gang regalia on or in the whare.

All manuhiri will be pre-arranged and will need to be approved in advance. They will have to comply with the tikanga and kawa of our kaupapa while at the whare.

Ara Poutama Aotearoa takes all reasonable steps to discourage people they manage from gang membership by providing programmes and opportunities to support people in disassociating themselves from gangs and gang related activities. They have a comprehensive five-year gang strategy that is aligned to the Whole of Government Action Plan on gangs. This strategy works to ensure communities are less impacted by the antisocial and criminal behaviours of people who are affiliated with gangs by:

• Limiting the criminal behaviours of people under our supervision

• Promoting and enabling gang disengagement

• Promoting people to adopt prosocial lives.

Our experienced kaimahi will work closely with probation officers to understand the conditions and orders of the sentences of all residents.

Probation officers will be responsible for actively managing the conditions and orders and if a resident breaches these, Ara Poutama Aotearoa may seek to enforce penalties, such as increased reporting to Community Corrections, prosecution or being sent to a corrections facility.

Community Corrections staff manage around 30,000 people in the community and are very experienced in working with people released from a corrections facility or serving a community-based sentence or order. There are around 2,500 people serving community-based sentences in the Wellington District.