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Seeking and establishing the views of disabled children and young people: A literature review

Social Work Now, issue 46, pages 9-18. Listening to children’s voices and accessing their views about service provision in the education, health, social services and legal…

Future Liability -  Estimating time on benefit and the associated cost

This research aimed to produce indicative estimates of the long-term fiscal costs of a cohort of current benefit recipients, and investigate how this varies with benefit…

Growing Up In New Zealand: Before We Are Born

Growing Up in New Zealand is a longitudinal study that provides an up-to-date, population relevant picture of what it is like to be a child growing…

Children’s contact with MSD services

This factsheet examines the contact young people born in 1993 had with Ministry of Social Development (MSD) benefit, care and protection and youth justice services in…

Youth Issues Survey report from Waikato Rangatahi (2010)

Young people taking part in a Māori Youth Summit in Hamilton in September 2010 were invited to respond to a set of questions about what’s important…

Evaluation of the Family Violence Interagency Response System (FVIARS) Summary Report

The Family Violence Interagency Response System (FVIARS) is an interagency initiative designed to more effectively manage cases of family violence reported to the Police. A key…

Youth Issues Survey report (2010)

The Ministry of Youth Development wished to obtain insight into the issues of interest and concern – affectively salience, to young people in the 12-24 year…

Why You Should Care: A Plan for Children in Care

In the last year Child, Youth and Family received over 125,000 reports from people concerned enough about a child’s safety to notify authorities. In over 21,000…

Working for Families Evaluation

The Working for Families Evaluation has been jointly conducted by the Ministry of Social Development and Inland Revenue Department. It aimed to assess: The implementation and…

Sole parenting in New Zealand

The Ministry of Social Development led a cross-agency and cross-sector research programme that looked at changes in the rate of sole parenthood, sole parent employment and…