Notifications

Reports of concern were assessed by Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children to decide if further action was required. Police family violence referrals were not assessed by Oranga Tamariki. Police family violence referrals were the result of Police attending a family violence incident where children were present or normally resident at the household concerned, and where Police assessed that Oranga Tamariki action was not required. These referrals were considered by local interagency groups which might have referred the family or child directly to non-government services or agreed that no further action was required.

This report finalises statistics for the fiscal year in which Child, Youth and Family was replaced by the Ministry for Vulnerable Children Oranga Tamariki (now known as Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children). This report uses operational data for police family violence referrals, which include backdated data entries for the year ended June 2016 and for the year ended June 2017. This has resulted in a significant change in volume of police family violence referrals previously published for the year ended June 2016.

Total children and young people with notifications (including Police family violence referrals)

1. Some children and young people may have had two or more reports of concern and/or police family violence referrals in the same period.

Distinct children and young people with care and protection reports of concern

The table below shows the number of distinct children and young people (ie each child or young person is counted only once in the period) with one or more reports of concern.

Download the latest national and local level data

The file below provides further information about children and young people with notifications in the past five years. In addition to the national level information, where appropriate, the information has been provided down to region, operational area, and site or subsite.