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An Ounce of Prevention

As the case studies in this booklet attest, there are many good reasons to view family violence as a health issue. Health professionals are often the…

Living at the cutting edge

Living at the cutting edge: women’s experiences of protection orders.

Safe Schools: Strategies to Prevent Bullying

This report presents an aggregation of ERO’s reported findings about the strategies schools are using to prevent bullying and provide a safe physical and emotional environment…

Lives cut short - Child death by maltreatment

This report uses New Zealand police data from 1991 to 2000 to identify the characteristics of the children who died and the people who killed them,…

Safety of children in hospital

The Office undertook an investigation into the safety of children following two incidents where infants hospitalised with suspected accidental injury were abused again while in hospital.…

Evaluating young children

Social Work Now, Issue 27, pages 19-24 Auckland Central, the first multi-agency service in New Zealand, referrals are received for assessment and therapy from social workers from…

Evaluation of the Target Hardening Pilot Programme

The Target Hardening Programme (THP) was developed by the Ministry of Justice to provide increased home security and at the same time provide burglary prevention information.…