Changing our approach to child abuse

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is calling for submissions on tackling our sorry rate of child neglect.

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11th February, 2012

The facts are stark: there were 21,000 confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect in 2009/10, and the year before that 1286 admissions of children to hospital as a result of assault, neglect or other maltreatment. The circle of harm does not end there. Figures show 47,374 children aged 16 or younger were either at an incident of family violence reported to police in 2010 or usually living with the person who was the victim. In that same year, 4047 adults were prosecuted by police for child abuse. For most New Zealanders, there are already names and faces to put to the statistics: repeated ...

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