Timeline - Children and young people | New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

Tamaiti ole Moana 2033: Towards 2033 – a 10-year action plan (Moana Connect, 2023) published
Aro ki te Hā (InsideOUT & RainbowYouth), a youth programme designed to support rainbow rangatahi to have safe, respectful, nurturing relationships with themselves and others piloted
Children and Young People’s Commission Act 2022 passed, establishing Mana Mokopuna - Children & Young People’s Commission on 1 July 2023
Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System Act 2022, in force 1 May 2023
Police failed to respond to alleged sexual assaults against recruits (IPCA, 2023) report published
Integrity Sport and Recreation Act 2023 passed, Integrity Sport and Recreation Commission to be established in 2024

Department of Internal Affairs in partnership with ECPAT New Zealand launches hotline for reporting child pornography – images of child sex abuse
Aroha in Action (Grenell. Amokura, S.K.I.P. & Campaign for Action on Family Violence, 2009) published
Amokura awarded annual Alumni Human Rights Prize by Leitner Centre for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School
Law Commission report on Review of Part 8 of the Crimes Act 1961 (NZLC R111) released. Recommends additional provisions that will make parents and caregivers liable if they fail to protect their children from injury or fail to intervene when a child is at risk.
Never, Ever Shake a Baby Campaign launched
Young people and violence (Clark et al. The University of Auckland). Findings from the Youth '07 Health and Wellbeing of Secondary School Students in New Zealand published

Child and Young Person's Advocate positions (45 full-time) established nationwide
Māori Child Abuse Summit held in Auckland (see also Mana Ririki)
Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007 - act to repeal Section 59 (Parental control) of the Crimes Act 1961 passed (in force 21 June 2007)
Lives cut short: child death by maltreatment (Connolly & Doolan. Dunmore Publishing, 2007) published

Department of Child, Youth and Family Services merged with Ministry of Social Development. Child, Youth and Family operates as a service of the Ministry of Social Developmeent
Screening, Risk Assessment and Intervention for Family Violence including Child Abuse (NZS 8006:2006), national standard launched June 2006
Safety of children in hospital report (Office of the Commissioner for Children, 2006) published
Preventing child maltreatment : a guide to taking action and generating evidence (Butchart. WHO, 2006) published
World Report on Violence against Children (Pinheiro. UN Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Children, 2006) published

ACC pilot programme for children who witness violence within families commenced (2004 - 2005)
Care of Children Act 2004 passed

Child Abuse Prevention Service NZ establishes a national office in Wellington

James Whakaruru investigation report (Office of the Commissioner for Children, 2000) published

Children and Family Violence: Effective Interventions Now conference held
Protecting Women and Children: An Interagency Response to Family Violence training kit jointly developed by NZ Police, NCIWR and CYPFA. Joint agency training of Police, social workers and community advocates is undertaken around the country

Breaking the Cycle: Interagency Protocols for Child Abuse Management (CYPS, 1996) published

Guardianship Amendment Act 1995 introduced a presumption that parents who use violence should not have unsupervised access to their children. This amendment along with the principal act repealed by the Care of Children Act 2004

Child abuse: guidelines for health services (Department of Health, 1992) published
Treasure the Child, a report on children living in Refuges (NCIWR, 1991) published

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

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)

Puao-Te-Ata-Tu (Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Māori Perspective for the Department of Social Welfare, 1986 published

First National Symposium on Child Abuse Prevention (Abbott. Mental Health Foundation, 1983) held in Palmerston North
Te Kōhanga Reo established

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)

Inter-departmental committee on child abuse formed involving departments of Health, Social Welfare and Education established

Children and Young Persons Act 1974 passed, replacing Child Welfare Act 1925. Repealed by Chilren, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989

Department of Social Welfare formed, bringing together the Social Security Department and the Child Welfare Division of the Education Department (see Garlick, 2012, p. 87-88)

Child rearing patterns in New Zealand (Ritchie & Ritchie, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1970) published

Guardianship Act 1968 passed. Repealed and replaced by the Care of Children Act 2004

Child Welfare Division of Education Department replaces Child Welfare Branch (see Garlick, 2012, p.59)

Child Welfare Branch of the Educaton Department (see Garlick, 2012, p.53) and the Children's Court (see Watt, 2003) established
Child Welfare Act 1925 archived by NZLII, passed (see Garlick, 2012, p.53). Repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1974

Declaration of the Rights of the Child adopted by the League of Nations. Adopted in an extended form by the United Nations in 1959

Society for the Promotion of the Health of Women and Children, which became known as the Plunket Society, established in Dunedin (se Te Ara page on Postnatal and and baby care)

Industrial Schools Act 1882 archived by NZLII (see Watt, 2003, p.7) passed. Consolidated 1908 and repealed by Child Welfare Act 1925

Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867 archived by NZLII (see Watt, 2003, p.7) passed. Repealed by Industrial Schools Act 1882

Timeline - Children and young people