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Willow talks with Stuff and Today FM
Safeguarding Children CEO, Willow Duffy discusses the topic of mandatory child protection training and reporting in schools with Stuff, view this article here. She has also spoken with Leah Panapa…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Privacy Commissioner revisits the Commissioner’s messages on protecting children
In 2017 Willow asked the Privacy Commissioner John Edwards to help create a short video about sharing information. The aim was to encourage more people to share information and help…