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
- 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)
- 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 Repealed by Victims' Rights Act 2002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
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
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Family Courts Act 1980 passed
- New Zealand Committee for Children (c1980-1987) founded
- Pilot projects to trial child protection teams in Dunedin and Hamilton
- Family Proceedings Act 1980 passed