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1. Oranga Tamariki Amendment Bill [pdf, 152 KB]

   ...circumstances, and physically removing the child or young person. And in some instances, it may be necessary to enter by force. Without this power, many custody orders would be unenforceable. Clause 12 therefore helps achieve the important objective of protecting a child or young person who is in need of care or protection and is rationally connected and proportionate to that objective. 17. The Bill also contains some safeguards which help to ensure that the right to be secure from unrea...

2. WNO v Oranga Tamariki [2025] NZHRRT 13 [pdf, 127 KB]

   ...breach of the Privacy Act 2020 (PA). Oranga Tamariki denies WNO’s claim. BACKGROUND [4] From January 2020, WNO made several requests to Oranga Tamariki for her personal information. At the time of WNO’s requests, her child BPQ was in the care of Oranga Tamariki. Oranga Tamariki’s Customer Information Requests (CIR) team accordingly developed a plan to release WNO’s personal information to her on a quarterly basis. [5] On 11 July 2022, Oranga Tamariki released to WNO a...

3. Adoption in Aotearoa NZ - Discussion document [pdf, 696 KB]

   ...............................................................................................................45 Legal effect of adoption .................................................................................................47 Alternative care arrangements and orders .....................................................................49 Discharging an adoption order.......................................................................................51 Impacts of adoption ......

4. Youth Court - history of the Youth Court [pdf, 217 KB]

   ...p. i 3 The Welfare Model The welfare model is based on the tenet that criminal behaviour in young people results from undesirable upbringing and environment. The focus of court intervention at the beginning of the 20th century thus shifted to the care and protection of young people rather than the emphasis placed in adult courts on accountability and punishment. Young offenders were handled in the same manner of reform as neglected youths, and courts focused on their ‘needs’, not their...

5. BORA Family Court Proceedings Reform Bill [pdf, 326 KB]

   ...and to information and services for parties to prepare for and respond adequately to proceedings in the Family Court. Legal representation for parties 5. Clause 5 restricts the ability for a lawyer to act for a party to a proceeding under the Care of Children Act 2004 (COCA) in the Family Court to the following situations: 5.1 The proceeding is commenced without notice; 5.2 The proceeding is under subpart 4 of Part 2 of COCA (international child abduction); 5.3 Whe...

6. Protection order applications December 2020 [xlsx, 91 KB]

   Contents Protection Order applications Protection Order application data is extracted from a live dataset that is used for operational purposes, meaning the data will be updated with late data entry and active applications progressing through the court process. Therefore, this data may differ to data reported elsewhere with a different extraction date. These tables were extracted on 1 March 2021. Contents: Table 1: Total number of Protection Order applications filed, 2011 - 2020 T...

7. Protection order applications June 2021 [xlsx, 90 KB]

   Contents Protection Order applications Protection Order application data is extracted from a live dataset that is used for operational purposes, meaning the data will be updated with late data entry and active applications progressing through the court process. Therefore, this data may differ to data reported elsewhere with a different extraction date. These tables were extracted on 7 September 2021. Contents: Table 1: Total number of Protection Order applications filed, 2011/2012 -...

8. Protection order applications December 2021 [xlsx, 93 KB]

   Contents Protection Order applications Protection Order application data is extracted from a live dataset that is used for operational purposes, meaning the data will be updated with late data entry and active applications progressing through the court process. Therefore, this data may differ to data reported elsewhere with a different extraction date. These tables were extracted on 28 February 2022. Contents: Table 1: Total number of Protection Order applications filed, 2012 - 2021...

9. Safer Sooner: Strengthening New Zealand’s Family Violence Laws [pdf, 7.9 MB]

   ...violence is an ongoing pattern of harm and by providing access to services aimed at stopping perpetrators’ violence and at helping victims stay safe. New principles will guide decisions made under the Act, for example: • victims must be protected from all forms of violence • disruption to victims’ (including children’s) day to day lives should be minimised • responses should be culturally appropriate and responses to Māori must reflect tikanga • practitioners m...

10. Interim Regulatory Impact Statement: Consultation options for adoption law reform [pdf, 857 KB]

    ...(Intercountry) Act 1997. The following aspects of adoption-related discussions are out of scope of the reform: o Past adoption practice, as past adoption placements are being considered as part of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions (‘the Royal Commission’) o Whether adoption should continue to be the legal mechanism to transfer legal parentage where a child is born by surrogacy, which is being considered as part o...