Ministry of Social Development Annual Report 2016/2017

The 2016/2017 annual report of the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development (PDF).

Families Package

Detail about the Families Package announced in December 2017 and implemented from 1 July 2018.

Child poverty in New Zealand

A fair go for all children: actions to address child poverty in New Zealand, a report commissioned by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner and Barnardos New Zealand (PDF).

Child Povery Action Group

Independent charity working to eliminate child poverty in New Zealand through research, education and advocacy.

The unravelling of the welfare safety net

A 2008 report prepared by Beneficiary Advocacy Federation of New Zealand for Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, which looks at changes to the social welfare system since the 1991 benefit cuts (PDF, 420KB).

Baker, Maureen. Families, labour and love: family diversity in a changing world. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2001.

Boston, Jonathan and Simon Chapple. Child poverty in New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2014.

Dalley, Bronwyn. Family matters: child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1998.

Grey, Claire. 'The affective economy of welfare in Aotearoa New Zealand'. New Zealand Sociology Volume 32, no. 2 (2017): 139-155.

Lunt, Neil, Mike O’Brien and Robert Stephens, eds. New Zealand, new welfare. Melbourne: CENGAGE Learning, 2008.

Tennant, Margaret. 'Welfare organisations.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.

Nolan, Melanie. Breadwinning: New Zealand women and the state. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2000.

Shirley, Ian, and others. ‘Family change and family policy in New Zealand.’ In Family change and family policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S., edited by S. Kamerman and A. Kahn, 207–304. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.