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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. Care or Protection Order application process

   Applications for Care or Protection Orders are made by Oranga Tamariki or New Zealand Police. On this page: Steps in applying for a Care or Protection Order After the government agency gives its application to the Family Court Family group conference Legal advice Care or Protection Order process - without notice Oranga Tamariki or Police can apply for a Care or Protection order. If the application is urgent, the Family Court makes an interim Order and the child is placed in the care...

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4. 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...

5. After a Care or Protection Order has been made

   If the Family Court makes a Care or Protection Order, the Oranga Tamariki social worker must give the court a report and a plan for the child. Oranga Tamariki regularly updates the plan. The people involved usually get a chance to tell the Family Court if they agree or don’t agree with the plan. On this page: The care or protection plan Reviewing the care or protection plan Responding to a Care or Protection Order application Contact with Oranga Tamariki Care or protection plan The care...

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   2. Keeping children safe

6. Protection-order-applications-jun2022-v1.0.xlsx [xlsx, 299 KB]

   ...https://www.justice.govt.nz/about/official-information-act-requests/ 1.Applications by type Table 1: Number and percentage of Protection Order applications, by application type, 2012/2013 - 2021/2022 Note that when Sentencing Act final Protection Orders and Breach of Police Safety Order and Care of Children Act temporary Protection Orders are granted an "application" is entered in the Case Management System to link the Order to. For more information on how to interpret these figure...

7. Protection order applications December 2023 [xlsx, 296 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 2024. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of Protection Order applications, by appli...

8. Protection order applications June 2023 [xlsx, 296 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 25 August 2023. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of Protection Order applications, by applica...

9. Protection order applications jun2024 [xlsx, 294 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 21 August 2024. Contents: Table 1: Number and percentage of Protection Order applications, by applica...

10. 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...