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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...
Locals take up opportunity for child protection course
Local organisations are taking up the opportunity to complete a course which helps ensure children are kept safe during extracurricular activities. Safeguarding Children NZ has partnered with Sport NZ to provide free resources - including essential document templates...
National Volunteers Week
Today marks the start of National Volunteers Week with Volunteering New Zealand and we want to take a moment to thank all of those who volunteer around Aotearoa. Volunteering can be a great way to learn and develop new skills, gain experience for future employment,...
New consultant on board
We welcome our newest Safeguarding Consultant, Kelly Mahuika. Kelly is an experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the medical practice industry. She is adept at leading multidisciplinary teams both in the public and private sectors. By...
Willow meets Hon Kelvin Davis, Minister for Children at Beehive
Willow went to the Beehive to meet Hon Kelvin Davis, Minister for Children to talk about the need for a review of The Children’s Act 2014. The Act needs revisiting to include any service working with children, not just those linked to government or funded by...