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1. Joint Protocol Ministry of Justice and Department of Child, Youth and Family [pdf, 79 KB]

   ...AND FAMILY, 1 JULY 2000 NOTE This protocol has been updated to account for the following changes: (a) the Department for Courts is now the Ministry of Justice; (b) Child, Youth and Family Services is now Child, Youth and Family; and (c) the Care of Children Act 2004 and the Family Courts Rules 2002 have been passed. No substantive changes have been made. TABLE OF CONTENTS Referral by the Family Court to Child, Youth and Family. Track 1: Section 15 CYP&F Act 1989 repor...

2. Family Court statistics: An overview of Family Court statistics in New Zealand 2004 to 2008 [pdf, 1.4 MB]

   ...The annual number of new cases has generally decreased. This points to falling numbers of new family groups using the Family Court. The exceptions are those seeking counselling or relationship dissolution. Parenting of children • Between 2005 and 2008, the distribution of parties given day-to-day care has more or less remained the same. Most parenting orders give day-to-day care to either the mother or the father. • New Plymouth and Rotorua court clusters had the highest rate o...

3. Protection order applications June 2020 [xlsx, 216 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 31 August 2020. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of Protection Order applications, by applica...

4. Regulatory Impact Statement Hague Child Protection Convention [pdf, 178 KB]

   ...Accession to the Convention will simplify case management for the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) resulting in savings in time and resources. Child, Youth and Family should not incur additional costs in relation to the management of international care and protection cases. 2 Nature and timing of proposed treaty action 9. We propose that New Zealand accede to the Hague Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in Respect of Parental...

5. Family Court applications June 2020 [xlsx, 188 KB]

   ...Family Court applications filed, by case type and application outcome, 2010/2011 - 2019/2020 Table 1c: Number of substantive Family Court applications filed, by case type and filing location, 2010/2011 - 2019/2020 Table 2a: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type, 2010/2011 - 2019/2020 Table 2b: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type and filing method, 2010/201...

6. Family Court statistics in New Zealand in 2006 and 2007 [pdf, 2 MB]

   ...Domestic violence cases 38 2.2.1 Background 38 2.2.2 Applications in 2006 and 2007 39 2.2.3 Recent trends 40 2.2.4 Outcomes of all applications for protection orders 43 2.2.5 Case length 44 2.2.6 Characteristics of applicants and respondents 46 2.3 Care and protection cases 50 2.3.1 Background 50 2.3.2 Applications and cases 2006 and 2007 50 2.3.3 Recent trends in care and protection cases 51 2.3.4 Outcomes 53 2.3.5 Grounds for applications for declaration 54 2.3.6 Demographic inf...

7. BORA Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Bill [pdf, 138 KB]

   ...19(1) (right to be free from discrimination). Our analysis is set out below. The Bill 4. The Bill amends the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989 (‘the principal Act’) to: a. extend the provisions of the statutory care and protection system to young people aged 17 years b. embed children and young people’s views at an individual and systemic level by strengthening obligations in the principal Act to support children and young people’s participation c. sup...

8. Family Court applications December 2019 [xlsx, 229 KB]

   ...percentage of substantive Family Court applications filed, by case type and application outcome, 2010 - 2019 Table 1c: Number of substantive Family Court applications filed, by case type and filing location, 2010 - 2019 Table 2a: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type, 2010 - 2019 Table 2b: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type and filing method, 2010 - 2019...

9. Family Court applications December 2020 [xlsx, 177 KB]

   ...percentage of substantive Family Court applications filed, by case type and application outcome, 2011 - 2020 Table 1c: Number of substantive Family Court applications filed, by case type and filing location, 2011 - 2020 Table 2a: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type, 2011 - 2020 Table 2b: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type and filing method, 2011 - 2020...

10. Family Court applications June 2021 [xlsx, 177 KB]

    ...Family Court applications filed, by case type and application outcome, 2011/2012 - 2020/2021 Table 1c: Number of substantive Family Court applications filed, by case type and filing location, 2011/2012 - 2020/2021 Table 2a: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type, 2011/2012 - 2020/2021 Table 2b: Number and percentage of Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) applications filed, by application type and filing method, 2011/201...