COI Te Marua/Mangaroa Playcentre: The SPACE Programme - Nurturing a culture of care for infants and first-time parents Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2008 The SPACE programme (Supporting Parents Alongside Children’s Education) at Te Marua/Mangaroa Playcentre is an early childhood Centre of Innovation (COI). The early childhood COI programme is…
Growing research in practice (GRIP): An innovative partnership model Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008 Growing Research in Practice (GRIP) was an innovative partnership programme which aimed to help develop a culture of enquiry among practitioners in social service agencies in Auckland…
Local Authority Candidates 2007 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008 This report presents the results of a survey of local authority election candidates in the October 2007 elections. Candidates include those standing for community boards, licensing…
An Examination of the Links between Parental Educational Qualifications, Family Structure and Family Wellbeing, 1981–2006 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008 The relationship between a person’s level of education and the level of income this commands has been well explored in the literature. Less well examined are…
Housing Markets and Migration: Evidence from New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008 New Zealand’s large and volatile external migration flows generate significant year-to-year fluctuations in the demand for residential housing. This paper uses population data from the 1986,…
The Social Report 2008 Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008 The Social Report uses a set of statistical indicators to monitor trends across 10 "domains”, or areas of people’s lives. Together these domains provide a picture…
Statistics New Zealand’s Framework for Measuring Sustainable Development Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008 Statistics New Zealand’s Framework for Measuring Sustainable Development defines the concept of sustainable development and provides a basis for selecting indicators to measure progress towards sustainable…
Healthy eating in New Zealand families and whanau Last Publication Date: 07 Dec 2007 A qualitative investigation into food and nutrition practices in family and whānau. More than 100 families were involved in this research.
The role of secure attachment as a protective factor for vulnerable infants Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2007 Social Work Now, Issue 38, pages 11-20. Children begin their lives entirely dependent on adults for survival. Bowlby (1969) believed that attachment behaviour was biological in origin,…
A research study of Young Carers: The development of a recording tool for agencies to identify young carers Last Publication Date: 02 Nov 2007 This report by Michael Gaffney of the Children’s Issues Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, in association with Carers New Zealand was commissioned and funded by the…
