Māori leaders are staging two major protests in New Zealand, straining relations with the Labour coalition government and drawing accusation...

If we thought closed adoption was harmful the first time round, it's back in the form of the euphemistic 'Special Guardianship',...

Supernanny-like social workers could all but live in the homes of troubled families, as part of a new plan to stem the flow of vulnerable ch...

A former Child Youth and Family caregiver has denied historical sexual offending against 17 boys. The man, aged in his 50s, worked for Ora...

THE mother of an autistic boy woke up in the New Year to find a furious note from her neighbour threatening to report her to social services...

In delivery rooms around New Zealand, the state is removing baby after baby from the same mother. Are we failing the very families that ...

The Government has announced it is expanding the scope of its long-promised inquiry into the abuse of children in state care to include thos...

A CALLER to the Northern Territory Government’s child abuse hotline waited on hold for more than four hours while trying to report suspected...

Placing children and young people in state care can have disastrous consequences and greatly increase their risk of becoming chronic offen...

A social worker who sat on a teen and punched a co-worker in the face is now working at an Auckland primary school. Uila Esera was charged...

As the government reviews New Zealand's adoption laws, there have been increasing calls for the rights of children to be paramount. Th...

A trainee Oranga Tamariki social worker accused of sexually violating a 14-year-old boy in her care says he raped her. Hastings woman Aman...

Children in state care are "too often" being shifted around as many as sixty different homes, the Children's Commissioner says...

An Auckland mother says her close relationship with her two sons quickly disappeared when her marriage broke up. It came as a surprise to ...

Between 20-30 children in state care are living in motels every day, due to a lack of foster caregivers, according to Oranga Tamariki. Mo...

Increasing numbers of foster parents are quitting as more than 6,000 vulnerable children across the country are in care or in need of care, ...

Judith* has seen her son once in the seven years since she split with his father. She has been left with little faith the current system can...

The head of a charity that campaigns against sexual violence has been arrested in New York for child pornography and allegedly trying to...

Lawyers working in both fields said they were sympathetic to Judge Jan-Marie Doogue's predicament, and there simply were not enough Dist...

A woman who was a Child Youth and Family social worker is accused of sexually violating a boy in her care as well as assault and supplying c...