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

An NZ History web feature 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.

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.