Resources

Resources for Care and Protection Practice Framework.

Key Resources

Care and protection practice framework (PDF 1.49MB)
Factors related to chronic neglect in families - fact sheet (PDF, 118kb)
Focusing on attachment and stability
Cage Kessler Prompts (PDF 120.49KB)
Recognition of Child Abuse and Neglect (ROCAN) (PDF 2.98MB)
Safety Organised Practice Elements & Strengths Based Principles (PDF 862.27KB)
Towards Well-Being Prompts (PDF 375.14KB)
Tracing Family/Whānau (Word 98KB)
Resource: Leading for Outcomes: Family Group Conferences (Word 26KB)
Vulnerable Infants Triggers
Supervision Triggers
Life Story Books
Mental Health Guidelines (PDF 908.5KB)
Everyday Families (PDF, 2.5Mb)
Risk, protection and resilience in children and families (PDF, 95kb)
Family Led and Culturally Responsive Practice
Working with Maori
Working with Pacific Peoples
E Kaveinga: A Cook Island Model of Social Work Practice (Word 7.7MB)
Working with Migrants

Key Information Sheets

Focusing on attachment and stability
Age and Developmental Stage of Children and Young People
Engaging with Children and Young People
Gathering Information to Support Good Case Work
Grief and Separation: When a child or young person enters care
Towards Independence: Voices of Young People

Useful Links

Adverse Childhood Events Study
Brainwave Trust
Centre for Attachment
Developing Child
Families Commission
Family and Community Services
Grandparents Raising grandchildren
High and Complex Needs
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Kiwi Families
La Leche
Littlies
National Caregiver Training
Research in Practice
New Zealand Family and Foster Care Federation
Resilience Project
Signs of Safety
Six Steps to Find a Family: A Practice Guide to Family Search and Engagement (PDF, 2.9Mb)
Social Care Online
Strategies with Kids (SKIP)
Strengthening Families
Te Kāhui Māngai (Directory of Iwi and Māori Organisations)
Zero to Three
Child & Family Web Guide (child development research)

Legislation

Care of Children Act 2004
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989
Official Information Act 1982
Privacy Act 1993
Public Records Act 2005
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC)

MSD and CYF Publications

Agenda for Children
Pate Lali Nafa: Strategy for Pacific Peoples (PDF, 476kb)
Puao-te-Ata-tu (PDF, 551kb)
Statement of Intent 2006

Key Reading

References for the Care and Protection Practice Framework
Social Work Now