Story: Children’s homes and fostering

More links and websites

• Fostering Kids New Zealand

  Information about fostering children in New Zealand, including training programmes and opportunities for new caregivers to connect to others near them for mutual support.

• Ministry of Social Development – Historic Abuse

  This webpage provides information about making historic claims relating to abuse while in state care.

• Baby farmers

  A NZ History website article on ‘baby farming’ in New Zealand.

• Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children – Being in care

  This website has information for families/whānau and young people about out-of-home care, and care and protection.

More suggestions and sources

• Amodeo, Colin. A beautiful haven: celebrating 80 years of Cholmondeley Children’s Home 1925–2005. Lyttelton: Cholmondeley Children’s Home, 2005.
• Connelly, Marie, Irene de Haan, and Jonelle Crawford. 'The safety of young children in care: a New Zealand study'. Adoption & fostering Volume 37, no. 3 (2013): 284–296.
• Crawford, Peggy. Only an orphan: first-hand accounts of life in children’s institutions. Lower Hutt: MJC Publishing, 1995.
• Dalley, Bronwyn. Family matters: child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press and Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1998.
• Stanley, Elizabeth. The road to hell: State violence against children in post war New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2016.
• Stanley, Elizabeth. 'Risky work: child protection practice'. Social Policy Journal of New Zealand Volume 30 (2007): 163–177.
• Tennant, Margaret. Paupers and providers: charitable aid in New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin and Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1989.