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Children/Young people

Children and Family Violence: The Unnoticed Victims

Gabrielle M Maxwell
Issue 02 July 1994


Child and Family Policy

Ian Hassall
Issue 02 July 1994


"Preventing Youth Crime: The Challenge Beyond Diversion"

Meredith Osmond
Issue 02 July 1994


The Australia and New Zealand Association of Children's Access Services

Brenda Pilott
Issue 03 December 1994


Hayden Raysmith: Dorothy and the Satellites: Child Care, Child Protection and Family Support in Victoria

Pamela Lea
Issue 04 July 1995


The Generosity of New Zealand’s Assistance to Families with Dependent Children: An Eighteen Country Comparison

Robert Stephens and Jonathan Bradshaw
Issue 04 July 1995


Men and Childcare: An Issue for Public Policy?

Paul Callister
Issue 05 December 1995


Responding to Child Offenders

Gabrielle Maxwell, Jeremy Robertson
Issue 06 July 1996


Pacific Island Polynesian Attitudes to Child Training and Discipline in New Zealand: Some Policy Implications for Social Welfare and Education

Penelope Schoeffel, Malama Meleisea et al.
Issue 06 July 1996


Young People in New Zealand: Opportunity and Choice

Alison Robins
Issue 07 December 1996


Policy Constructions: In Whose Interest? A Critical Analysis of Parents as First Teachers in Relation to Māori Education

Leonie Pihama
Issue 07 December 1996

The Benefit Status of Caregivers of Children and Young People Who Come to the Notice of CYPFS

Mike Rochford, Bryony Walker
Issue 07 December 1996


The Education of Teenage Mothers in New Zealand: A Policy Vacuum and a Practical Example of Assistance

Susan Baragwanath
Issue 09 November 1997


Distorted Childhoods: The Meaning of Violence for Children

Gabrielle Maxwell, Janis Carrol-Lind
Issue 10 June 1998


Creative Youth Justice Practice

Marlene Levine, Aaron Eagle, Simi Tuiavi'i
Issue 11 December 1998


Learning from Child Complainants of Sexual Abuse and Their Primary Carers: Implications for Policy and Practice

Emma Davies, Fred W. Seymour
Issue 12 July 1999


New Zealand Youth Gangs: Key Findings and Recommendations from an Urban Ethnography

Erin J. Eggleston
Issue 14 July 2000


Gender Differences and Adolescent Risks

Judith Davey
Issue 14 July 2000


Wilderness Rehabilitation: An 18-Month Follow-Up of the Whakapakari Youth Programme

Erin J. Eggleston
Issue 14 July 2000


Consistent or Conflicting? Sexual Health Legislation and Young People's Rights in New Zealand

Barbara Collins
Issue 15 July 2001


Debating a Research Agenda for Children for the Next Five Years

Rachel Smithies, Sue Bidrose
Issue 15 July 2001


A Contribution to a Research Strategy on Children's Life Outcomes

Murray Petrie, Janice Wright
Issue 16 July 2001


Sink or Swim: Leaving Care in New Zealand

Deborah Yates
Issue 16 July 2001


Whanake Rangatahi: Programmes and Services to Address Maori Youth Offending

Victoria Owen
Issue 16 July 2001


Differences in How Girls and Boys Respond to Family Group Conference: Preliminary Research Results

Gabrielle Maxwell and Venezia Kingi
Issue 17 December 2001


Teenage Pregnancy: Barriers to an Integrated Model for Policy Research

Roy Nash
Issue 17 December 2001


The Prevalence and Persistence of Low Income Among New Zealand Children: Indicative Measures from Benefit Dynamics Data

Deborah Ball and Moira Wilson
Issue 18 June 2002


Children in Poor Families: Does the Source of Family Income Change the Picture?

Vasantha Krishnan, John Jensen and Mike Rochford
Issue 18 June 2002


Young People and Transitions Policies in New Zealand

Jane Higgins
Issue 18 June 2002


Achieving The Diversion and Decarceration Of Young Offenders In New Zealand

Gabrielle Maxwell, Jeremy Robertson and Venezia Kingi
Issue 19 December 2002


A Review of Literature on Child Prostitution

Miriam Saphira and Pam Oliver
Issue 19 December 2002


Children on Benefit: Who Stays Longest?

Garry Barrett, Frances Krsinich and Moira Wilson
Issue 19 December 2002


From Rhetoric to Action: A Case for a Comprehensive Community-Based Initiative to Improve Developmental Outcomes for Disadvantaged Children

Emma Davies, Beth Wood and Robert Stephens
Issue 19 December 2002


Family Resilience and Good Child Outcomes: An Overview of the Research Literature

Ross Mackay
Issue 20 June 2003


The Level of Financial Assistance to Families with Dependent Children: A Comparative Analysis

Robert Stephens
Issue 20 June 2003


Identifying Future Research Needs for the Promotion of Young People's Sexual Health in New Zealand

Sue Jackson
Issue 21 March 2004


Methodological Lessons Learned from the Process Evaluation of the Comprehensive Strategy For Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders

Sanjeev Sridharan and Elizabeth I. Lopez
Issue 22 July 2004


Are the Outcomes of Young Adults Linked to the Family Income Experienced in Childhood?

Tim Maloney
Issue 22 July 2004


Triggering Movements Into and Out of Child Poverty: A Comparative Study of New Zealand, Britain and West Germany

Suzie Ballantyne, Simon Chapple, Dave Maré and Jason Timmins
Issue 22 July 2004


An Employment Barrier: The Health Status of DPB Recipients’ Children

Tim O’Donovan, Karen McMillan and Heather Worth
Issue 22 July 2004


Building Research Strategies in Child Welfare: A Research and Evaluation Framework for Policy and Practice

Marie Connolly
Issue 22 July 2004


Promoting Resilient Development in Children Receiving Care Conference Review

Justine Cornwall
Issue 23 December 2004


Community - Based Child Welfare for Aboriginal Children: Supporting Resilence through Structural Change

Cindy Blackstock and Nico Trocmé
Issue 24 April 2005


The Impact of Family Structure and Family change on Child Outcomes: A Personal Reading of the Research Literature

Ross Mackay
Issue 24 April 2005


What Works?

Helen Roberts
Issue 24 April 2005


What Works for Children and What Works in Research Implementation? Experiences from a Research and Development Project in the United Kingdom

Kristin Liabo
Issue 24 April 2005


A Differential Response Model for Child Protection in New Zealand: Supporting More Timely and Effective Responses to Notifications

Steve Waldegrave and Fiona Coy
Issue 25 July 2005


YouthGrow: Developing Community with Youth through Employment

Vaughan Milner
Issue 25 July 2005


Off to a Better Start: What we Know About Early Intervention Services

Joan Sykora
Issue 26 November 2005


The Kindness of Strangers: Family-Based Early Intervention and Improved Outcomes for Children

Tina E Robilliard
Issue 26 November 2005


Causal Frameworks in Child Unintentional-Injury Prevention Policy in New Zealand

Belinda Reeve
Issue 27 March 2006


Contrasting National Jurisdictional and Welfare Responses to Violence to Children

Charles Waldegrave
Issue 27 March 2006


Stigma, Rights, Resilience and Stability

Juanita Watts, Renee Kumar, Kenneth Nicholson, Janelle Kumar
Issue 27 March 2006


“Just Accept Us How We Are More”: Experiences of Young Pakeha with Their Families in Aotearoa New Zealand

Tim McCreanor, Peter D. Watson, Simon J. Denny
Issue 27 March 2006


Creating a Warm Place Where Children Can Blossom

Robbie Gilligan
Issue 28 July 2006


Cultural Conceptualisation of Child Abuse and Responses to It: An Aboriginal Perspective

Sue Gordon
Issue 28 July 2006


Stabilisation of the Statutory Child Protection Response: Managing to a Specified Level of Risk Assurance

James Mansell
Issue 28 July 2006


Response to “Stabilisation of the Statutory Child Protection Response”

Eileen Munro
Issue 28 July 2006


Author’s Reply to Eileen Munro

James Mansell
Issue 28 July 2006


The Underlying Instability in Statutory Child Protection: Understanding the System Dynamics Driving Risk Assurance Levels

James Mansell
Issue 28 July 2006


Safety Issues in the Lives of Children with Learning Disabilities

Freda Briggs
Issue 29 July 2006


Child Impact Reporting

Kirsten Hanna, Ian Hassall and Emma Davies
Issue 29 July 2006


Responding to the Deaths of Children Known to Child Protection Agencies

Marie Connolly, Mike Doolan
Issue 30 March 2007


What do Children Tell Us about Physical Punishment as a Risk Factor for Child Abuse?

Terry Dobbs
Issue 30 March 2007


Risky Work: Child Protection Practice

Tony Stanley
Issue 30 March 2007


Cultural Identity and the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989: Ideology, Policy and Practice

Emily Keddell
Issue 32 November 2007


What Happens to Research? Responses to a Project on the Residential Movement of Children and Young People

Bev James
Issue 33 March 2008


Baby Bonus or Paid Parental Leave -- Which one is Better?

Paul Callister, Judith Galtry
Issue 34 April 2009


Paid Parental Leave Under (New) Labour

Katherine Forbes
Issue 34 April 2009


Child Protection Policy and Practice
A Relationship Lost in Translation

Ian Hyslop
Issue 34 April 2009


Just who do we think Children are?
New Zealanders' Attitudes about Children, Childhood and Parenting: An Analysis of Submissions on the Bill to Repeal Section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961

Sophie Debski, Sue Buckley, Marie Russell
Issue 34 April 2009


A Place where it is not Okay to Hit Children
The Role of Professionals

Julie Lawrence, Anne Smith
Issue 34 April 2009


Kids on Quads
Responding to Rural Risks

Maxine Campbell
Issue 34 April 2009


Juggling Acts: How Parents Working Non-Standard Hours Arrange Care for their Pre-School Children

Janine Moss
Issue 35 June 2009


The Meaning of Family and Home for Young Pasifika People Involved in Gangs in the Suburbs of South Auckland

Camille Nakhid
Issue 35 June 2009


Putting the Kids First: Caring for Children after Separation

Jeremy Robertson, Jan Pryor and Janine Moss
Issue 35 June 2009


Children in Changing Families by Jan Pryor and Bryan Rodgers

Reviewed by Jan Rodwell
Issue 35 June 2009


A “Main” Ethnic Group?: Ethnic Self-Prioritisation among New Zealand Youth

Tahu Kukutai and Paul Callister
Issue 36 July 2009


Children in Families Supported by Main Benefits: An Update

Moira Wilson and Daniel Soughtton
Issue 36 July 2009


Ethnic Identity and Exposure to Maltreatment in Childhood: Evidence from a New Zealand Birth Cohort 

Dannette Marie, David M Fergusson and Joseph M. Boden
Issue 36 July 2009


Household Economic Resources as a Determinant of Childhood Nutrition: Policy Responses for New Zealand

Mat Walton, Louise Signal and George Thomson
Issue 36 July 2009