Kōrero: Child abuse

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

• Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry

  This site gives information on recognising the warning signs of child abuse, and provides links to other relevant sites.

• Barnardos

  This site gives information on recognising the warning signs of child abuse, and provides links to other relevant sites.

• ECPAT Child Alert

  The New Zealand branch of a global organisation which aims to eliminate child pornography, prostitution and sex trafficking.

• Learning from tragedy

  A 2010 report on homicides in New Zealand families between 2002 and 2006.

• Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children

  Information about child welfare and for members of the public who have concerns about a family.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

• Connolly, Marie, and Mike Doolan. Lives cut short: child death by maltreatment. Wellington: Dunmore Press for Office of the Children’s Commissioner, 2007.

• Dalley, Bronwyn, ‘Deep and dark secrets: government responses to child abuse'. In Past judgement: social policy in New Zealand history, edited by Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, 175–189. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004.

• Dalley, Bronwyn. Family matters: child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.

• Hood, Lynley. A city possessed: the Christchurch Civic Creche case. Dunedin: Longacre, 2001.

• Keddell, Emily, 'The vulnerable child in neoliberal contexts: the construction of children in Aotearoa New Zealand child protection reforms.' Childhood vol. 25, no. 1 (2018): 93-108.

• Smith, Anne B. 'Child protection: policies for vulnerable children in New Zealand'. In Enhancing children’s rights: connecting research, policy and practice, edited by A. Smith, 111-126. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

• Stanley, Elizabeth. The road to hell: state violence against children in postwar New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2016.