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THANK YOU for supporting Child Protection Week 2021!
A huge thank you for supporting our first annual Child Protection Week. We want every week to be child protection week. Every day, every week, our children protected from abuse and neglect everywhere they go. The purpose of Child Protection Week is to raise...
Child Safeguarding Podcast
Our CEO, Willow Duffy has contributed to a Child Safeguarding Podcast by Brad Poynting. This Australian Child Safeguarding Podcast by PCA is an interview style podcast, exploring how people and organisations are creating Child Safe Organisations to protect children...
Safeguarding Children feature in Stuff article on Child Protection Week
Our CEO, Willow Duffy has been interviewed by Stuff in regards to the upcoming Child Protection Week (5-11 September 2021). The purpose of this week is to raise awareness of what individuals, organisations and communities can do to increase the protection of...
Privacy Commissioner preferred candidate for role of UK Information Commissioner
Congratulations to John Edwards, New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, on the news that he is the UK Government’s preferred candidate for Information Commissioner. The UK are so lucky to have John. We would like to thank him for everything he has done for New Zealand....
Enjoy $10 off your next training!
To continue celebrating #10YearsSafeguardingChildren and to help raise awareness around Child Protection Week 2021, we are thrilled to announce that we are offering $10 off each of our eLearning courses, resources and recorded webinar options! We are New Zealand’s...
Ten Principles of Safeguarding
Safeguarding is about prevention of harm and early intervention to minimise the impact on the child. Safeguarding is a proactive preventative approach to child protection. To acknowledge 10 years of Safeguarding Children NZ, we’ve pulled together the 10 Principles of...
Safeguarding Children Celebrates 10 Years!
Kia ora whānau, I can’t believe that Safeguarding Children are celebrating ten years of empowering people to protect the children of New Zealand from abuse. What an incredible ten years it has been! What started out as three nurses and a detective standing up...
Hope fading for survivors of abuse in gymnastics
One year ago New Zealand joined a global movement of exposing abusive practice in gymnastics. Stuff uncovered an “insidious” culture. Survivors spoke of psychological and verbal abuse, body shaming, sexualisation, biased judging and score tampering, athletes training...
Child Protection Week – September 2021
Safeguarding Children is proud to launch New Zealand’s Child Protection Week in September 2021. Protection of our tamariki should be a part of our everyday lives. It is the responsibility of the whole community. Child Protection Week will highlight the importance of...
A collaborative approach to Information Sharing
An article from Kia Mauri Ora's Magazine of Social Service Providers Aotearoa - July 2021 issue, discusses the importance of a collaborative approach to information sharing. Below is an excerpt from this article. "In response to changes to the Oranga Tamariki Act...
Media Release – Whistleblower footage at Oranga Tamariki Care and Protection Residence
Safeguarding Children CEO, Willow Duffy says that whistleblowers working in any organisation which cares for, or provides services for children and young people must be protected with the appropriate legislation. “The recent release by a whistleblower of...
Early learning sector welcomes new child protection resource
Safeguarding children have created an eLearning course for the Early Learning Sector in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood New Zealand (ECNZ) . This course helps kaiako understand child abuse and neglect, the impact on...