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.

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.