Identifying and Responding to Child Abuse

This Quick Reads covers:

• New Law Commission review of current Human Rights Act protections for transgender, non-binary and intersex people
• Key mental health and addiction findings from NZ Health Survey 2023/2024 released
• UN Women releases paper on practices and strategies for advancing gender equality and women’s rights

This Quick Reads covers:

• Survey of victim-survivors on stopping violence programmes and interventions
• 3 new articles published from He Koiora Matapopore | 2019 New Zealand Family Violence Study
• Reports from the South Australia Royal Commission into Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence
• Kotahitanga: Understanding identities through intersectionality (2025)
• 2025 New Zealand Security Intelligence Services (NZSIS) Security Threat Environment report
• UN experts reaffirm central role of gender in advancing human rights and equality
• The Ministry of Justice released latest findings from the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey

This Quick Reads covers:

• FV and SV Workforce Pulse Survey now open
• Social Investment Fund Contract Consolidation pathway opening soon
• Bill protecting victims giving evidence of FV in Family Court passes into law
• Research on online body shaming and its effect on the brain
• New research brief on Pacific maternal and paternal mental health
• New WHO report on public health impacts of corporal punishment of children

This Quick Reads covers:

• Consultation open on the draft New Zealand Disability Strategy 2026-2030
• First round of Social Investment Fund opening
• Change in ACC eligibility for survivors of sexual abuse
• New report on family violence policing in Victoria, Australia
• Short film released about engaging with tāngata whai ora from the rainbow community
• New report from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner on digital child exploitation