Timeline

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1979
  • First national gathering of Women’s Refuges
  • First national gathering on child abuse held in Dunedin
1978
  • Report of the Royal Commission on the Courts (Beattie. 1978) (see Watt, 2003, p.8) published
1977
  • 11 new Women’s Refuges established
  • First Parentline groups established in Auckland and Hamilton
1976
  • Women’s Refuge opened in Dunedin
  • Inter-departmental committee on child abuse formed involving departments of Health, Social Welfare and Education established
1975
  • Halfway house refuges established by Rape Crisis in Auckland and Wellington

    Sexual violence
1974
  • First Rape Crisis group established in Auckland

    Sexual violence
  • Children and Young Persons Act 1974 passed, replacing Child Welfare Act 1925. Repealed by Chilren, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989 Legislation
1973
1972
  • 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)
1970
  • Child rearing patterns in New Zealand (Ritchie & Ritchie, A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1970) published