More links and websites
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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.
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Barnardos
This site gives information on recognising the warning signs of child abuse, and provides links to other relevant sites.
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ECPAT Child Alert
The New Zealand branch of a global organisation which aims to eliminate child pornography, prostitution and sex trafficking.
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Learning from tragedy
A 2010 report on homicides in New Zealand families between 2002 and 2006.
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Oranga Tamariki – Ministry for Children
Information about child welfare and for members of the public who have concerns about a family.
More suggestions and sources
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Connolly, Marie, and Mike Doolan. Lives cut short: child death by maltreatment. Wellington: Dunmore Press for Office of the Children’s Commissioner, 2007.
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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.
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Dalley, Bronwyn. Family matters: child welfare in twentieth-century New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.
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Hood, Lynley. A city possessed: the Christchurch Civic Creche case. Dunedin: Longacre, 2001.
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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.
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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.
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Stanley, Elizabeth. The road to hell: state violence against children in postwar New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2016.