Summary of data tables
Trends for people with finalised charges in court (2025) (PDF, 745 KB)

The Te Tāhū o te Ture | Ministry of Justice website currently provides data for the year ending 31 December 2024. Links to data tables related to family violence and sexual violence offences, Te Kōti Whānau | Family Court and justice services are listed below.

The Te Tāhū o te Ture | Ministry of Justice updates this data every six months.

Specific offence types

• Family violence offences
  The number of finalised charges and number of people with finalised charges and convicted of family violence offences. This is the most comprehensive family violence offences data published by the Ministry of Justice.
• Offences related to family violence
  The number of finalised charges and number of people with finalised charges and convicted of offences related to family violence including Breach of protection order, Common assault (domestic), Male assaults female, Assault on a family member, and Strangulation/suffocation.
• Sexual offences
  The number of finalised charges and number of people with finalised charges and convicted of sexual offences by sexual offence type (e.g. rape) and victim type.
• Harmful digital communication offences
  The number of finalised charges and number of people with finalised charges and convicted of Harmful Digital Communications Act offences.

Te Kōti Whānau | Family Court

• Protection Order applications
  Information includes total number of applications, applications involving children and the age, gender and ethnicity of applicants and respondents.
• Family Court applications
  The number of substantive Te Kōti Whānau | Family Court applications filed by case type. This includes more detailed information on Care of Children Act (excluding Hague) cases, such as parenting order applications filed without notice, and family violence cases.

Justice services

• Family violence programmes
• Includes information on the number of referrals, assessments and completions of non-violence programmes for people who have used violence, as well as safety programmes, and the strengthening safety service for people who have experienced or witnessed violence.

For more information sources, see Research and data, including:

• Family violence and sexual violence research
• New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS) - further information about NZCVS and the previous New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey (NZCASS) is available on our Population-based research page

For specific information requests, email: justiceinfo@justice.govt.nz or make an Official information Act request

Policedata.nz
This website provides access to a number of interactive reports including daily occurrences of crime and family violence investigations, offender and victim data.

Family violence investigations data for the last 3 years for Auckland, outside Auckland and New Zealand are available.

Please read our news item about data on unique offenders and unique crime victims.

Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa | New Zealand Police publish annual statistics reports on homicide victims (latest report, 2007-2021, with 2022 provisional data, published June 2024).

Our data – you asked us (Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa | New Zealand Police, 2019) includes data on:

Family harm (pages 4 - 7)

• Family harm investigations* conducted by Police district, 2016 - 2018 (Table 2)
• Proportion of family investigations* with offences, arrests and/or prosecutions by Police district, 2016 - 2018 (Table 3)
• Proceedings against offenders that involved an offence for contravening a protection order, by Police district, 2016 - 2018 (Table 4)
• Police Safety Orders (PSOs) issued and breached, 2011 - 2018 (Table 5)

*Caveats: Family harm investigations (page 31)

Sexual assaults (pages 26 - 27)

• Recorded sexual assaults, by Police district, 2016 - 2018  (Table 17)

For specific information requests, email: data@police.govt.nz or make an Official Information Act request

Performance data

In August 2024, the Minister for Children identified 4 key priorities for Oranga Tamariki. The first report was published in December 2024. See the latest report and access previous reports:

Performance measures for Ministerial priorities: Quarter Two, 2024/25 as at 31 December 2024 (latest). This report includes data on Reports of concern.

This report should be read in conjunction with the Oranga Tamariki Performance Report, Quarter Two, 2024/25 as at 31 December 2024 (latest). This report covers appropriation measures and financial performance.

Learn more about quarterly performance reports and find previous reports.

Reports of concern

When information about a child or young person is reported to Oranga Tamariki and meets the definition under Section 15 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989, a report of concern is generated. In the 2024 calendar year, Oranga Tamariki received a notable increase in reports of concern. Oranga Tamariki received 95,422 reports of concern for 59,391 distinct tamariki. This was a 34.5% increase compared to 2023 (an additional 24,494 reports of concern). This insights product explores the reasons for this increase and provides foresight into what we might expect to see in the future.

Understanding reports of concern: Insight into the increase in reports of concern in 2024 and exploring future demand (Oranga Tamariki, 2025).

Information about unborn and newborn pēpi entering care

Practice and decision-making for unborn and newborn pēpi who enter care under section 78 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 (includes data relating to 31 March 2024) is published in in the Oranga Tamariki annual report 2023/24, Appendix A, pages 122 - 136

Update on what is happening with entries to care: June 2023 (Oranga Tamariki Evidence Centre, 2023) analyses entries into Oranga Tamariki care between 2019 and 2023. Reports with data from 2017 are available.

See also Babies and children entering Oranga Tamariki care (to FY2020), PDF 240KB‍

Safety of children in care

Safety of Children in care reports have been published annually since 2020.

The latest Safety in care report is published as Appendix C in the Oranga Tamariki annual report:

Safety of children in care: Annual report 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 (latest report, published in the Oranga Tamariki annual report 2023/24, Appendix C, pages 151 - 169)

This is the last stand-alone report published by Oranga Tamariki: 

Safety of children in care: Annual report July 2022 to June 2023 (latest report, published January 2024)

Learn more about Safety of Children in care and find previous reports.

Section 7AA reports

Section 7AA reports provide information on the actions taken and the progress made in meeting Oranga Tamariki's duties under section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989.

Te whanake i ngā hua mō ngā tamariki Māori, ō rātau whānau, hapū, iwi anō hoki | Improving outcomes for tamariki Māori, their whānau, hapū and iwi. Section 7AA report 2023 (latest report for year ended 30 June 2023, published December 2023)

See also reports from Aroturuki Tamariki | Independent Children's Monitor below.

Data relating to Child, Youth and Family - before June 2017

Earlier Child, Youth and Family data (to June 2017) is available from Ministry of Social Development website.

Family Violence Death Review workstream

The Family Violence Death Review workstream is one of the workstreams of the National Mortality Review Committee.

This report, prepared by the Family Violence Death Review Subject Matter Experts, explores femicide within Aotearoa New Zealand:

Femicide: Deaths resulting from gender-based violence in Aotearoa New Zealand Kōhuru Wahine: nā te ririhau ā-ira i te whenua o Aotearoa (Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission National Mortality Review Committee, 2025).

Recent reports of the former Family Violence Death Review Committee include:

An ongoing duty to care | He tauwhiro haere te mahi: Responding to survivors of family homicide | Hei urupare ki ngā toiora o te ririhau ā-whānau (8th report) (FVDRC, 2023).

Seventh report: A duty to care | Pūrongo tuawhitu: Me manaaki te tangata. (FVDRC, 2022).

Sixth report | Te Pūrongo tuaono: Men who use violence | Ngā tāne ka whakamahi i te whakarekereke (FVDRC, 2020).

Family Violence Death Review Committee: Fifth report data: January 2009 to December 2015 (FVDRC, 2017).

Find all previous reports and related publications in the Vine library:

Family Violence Death Review Committee reports and all FVDRC related publications

In 2021 the Family Violence Death Review Committee published two fact sheets. These fact sheets are available in English, te reo Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Hindi and Simplified Chinese.

Child abuse and neglect deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand (2009 - 2018).

Intimate partner deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand (2009 - 2018).

Other relevant workstreams include: 

• Child and youth mortality review

• Perinatal and maternala mortality review.

Crime and justice statistics
Find information on prosecutions and convictions, types of sentences, and the number of people serving prison or community sentences.

Use the Tatauranga Aotearoa | Statistics New Zealand 'chat with us now' link if you need help accessing this information.

Experiences of care in Aotearoa

The National Care Standards (NCS) Regulations came into effect in 2019, and set out the minimum standard of care that must be provided when the state has custody of a child. Aroturuki Tamariki |  Independent Children's Monitor reports annually on whether agencies with custody and care responsibilities are complying with the and whether it is making a difference for children and young people in care:

Experiences of care in Aotearoa: Agency compliance with the National Care Standards and Related Matters Regulations. Reporting period 1 July 2023 - 30 June 2024 (Latest report published February 2025)

Outcomes for tamariki and rangatahi Māori and their whānau

The Oversight of the Oranga Tamariki System Act requires Aroturuki Tamariki | Independent Children's Monitor to report annually on outcomes for tamariki and rangatahi Māori and their in the oranga tamariki system. This is the first of these reports:

Outcomes for tamariki and rangatahi Māori and their whānau: A report on the performance of the oranga tamariki system (Aroturuki Tamariki | Independent Children's Monitor, 2025)

Learn more about the work of Aroturuki Tamariki | Independent Children's Monitor and find previous and related reports.

Operation Respect - Survey of New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel

Data collected March - April 2022. Harmful behaviours measured include: unwanted sexual activity, inappropriate sexual behaviour and bullying, harassment and discrimination.

From the report:

"1.38 The survey asked respondents to provide information about whether they had experienced or witnessed harmful behaviour in the last 12 months. NZDF does not currently collect this information in a detailed way."

"1.39 We also asked what action had been taken in response to harmful behaviour and what respondents’ views were on the adequacy of support for those experiencing and reporting harmful behaviour."

Survey results along with other qualitative data are published in:
A safe and respectful New Zealand Defence Force : First monitoring report (OAG, 2023).

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