Timeline
Tangata Pasifika Women's Refuge (Women's Refuge, 2015) established
- Dangerous situations: the report of the Independent Inquiry Team reporting on the circumstances of the death of a child (Independent Inquiry Team. DSW, 1989) published
- Office of the Commissioner for Children established
Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989 passed. Renamed Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 (or Children's and Young People's Well-being Act 1989), by significant amending legislation passed in July 2017
Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the UN General Assembly
- Telethon on violence prevention held, managed by the Home & Neighbourhood Trust
- Men of Aotearoa formed – a national grouping of men’s groups working on domestic violence. Became Te Kupenga Whakaoti Mahi Patenga National Network of Stopping Violence Services.
- Reach Out public education campaign launched, co-ordinated by FVPCC
- Attitudes to Family Violence: A Study Across Cultures (McNeill et al. FVPCC 1988) published
- Hutt Family Violence Network established – first community-based inter-agency co-ordinating body
- Mental Health Foundation conference on family violence held
Te Whare Rokiroki in Wellington, the second Māori Women's Refuge established (Women's Refuge, 2015)
- Victims Task Force set up for five-year period
- Police Family Violence Policy adopted
- FVPCC Statement on Family Violence issued; Tūkino Tangata (Māori caucus) established
- Victims of Offences Act 1987 passed. Repealed by Victims' Rights Act 2002
- Report of the Ministerial Committee of Inquiry into Violence (Roper. Ministerial Committee, 1987) published
- Review of the Children and Young Persons Bill (Report of the Working Party. Department of Social Welfare 1987)
- Launch of Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme for primary schools (developed by the Police’s Law-Related Education Programme)
Te Whakaruruhau, the first Māori Women’s Refuge established
- Puao-Te-Ata-Tu (Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Māori Perspective for the Department of Social Welfare, 1986 published
Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 passed, amending the Crimes Act 1961 by removing criminal sanctions against consensual homosexual conduct between males
Family Violence Conference organised by Police and National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges (NCIWR) (see Carswell, 2006, Ch.2) held
- First edition of Fresh Start: A Self Help Book for New Zealand Women in Abusive Relationships published (NCIWR, 1985)
- National Collective of Rape Crisis and Related Groups of Aotearoa formed
Te Kākano o Te Whānau groups established, offering sexual abuse counselling services to Māori
- Police research into domestic violence (see Carswell, 2006, Ch.2) undertaken
- Review of Refuge instituted by the Minister of Social Welfare
- Family Violence Prevention Coordinating Committee (FVPCC) formed
- NZ Government ratifies UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Crimes Amendment Act (No 3) 1985 paseed, removing sections of the Crimes Act 1961 relating to rape and substituting new provisions relating to 'sexual violation', which included male rape of a woman and 'a person having unlawful sexual connection with another person'
- Pacific Island Women’s Project established, focusing on rape and sexual abuse of Pacific Island women
- Whakamaru Tinana, Māori women’s self-defence groups formed
- First national gathering of men’s anger management groups
Department of Social Welfare established funding for rape and sexual abuse services
- Review of the Children and young person's legislation: public discussion document (Manchester. Departmet of Social Welfare, 1984) published
- Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS) NZ founded. Became Jigsaw in 2006.
- Department of Social Welfare provides some funding for Women’s Refuges (see Garlick, 2012, p.107)
- Maatua Whangai programme (see Garlick, 2012 p.103) established
- A Socio-economic Assessment of Women’s Refuges (Synergy. NCIWR, 1983) published
For Men Support begins in West Auckland. First group working with men who use violence
- First National Symposium on Child Abuse Prevention (Abbott. Mental Health Foundation, 1983) held in Palmerston North
Te Kōhanga Reo established
- Domestic Protection Act 1982 passed. Repealed by Domestic Violence Act 1995
National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges established (Women's Refuge, 2015)
- Family Courts Act 1980 passed
- National Advisory Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse (NACPCA) established bringing together representatives from government and non-government agencies, including the Department of Social Welfare (see Garlick, 2012, p. 102)
- New Zealand Committee for Children (c1980-1987) founded
- Family Proceedings Act 1980 passed
- Pilot projects to trial child protection teams in Dunedin and Hamilton