"Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another"
- Henry Nouwen
Thousands of youths across the country are set to lose access to unemployment benefits, after a welfare bill passed into law under urgency on Friday night. From November 2026, the government will end Jobseeker payments to 18-19-year-olds whose parents earn…
Documenting how judges explain child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetration is an important task as sentencing decisions are in formed by their explanatory understandings. Despite this, the research into judges’ explanations for CSA perpetration is piecemeal and dated. Moreover, some of…
MSD doesn’t say if it’s checking Lake Alice torture survivors’ benefit decisions after compensation botch up The agency wrongly denied accommodation supplement to a Lake Alice survivor, but the decision was overturned Former human rights commissioner criticises MSD’s stance. Officials…
Background Adolescents who engage in harmful sexual behaviours (AHSB) represent a heterogeneous group with complex developmental, psychosocial, and family characteristics. Existing national-level data of these characteristics remains limited, particularly outside North America and Europe. Objective This study aimed to provide…
Police are reviewing more adult sexual assault and child protection investigations, RNZ can reveal. They are separate to the more than 50 cases of child protection complaints and adult sexual assaults re-opened after concerns were raised in May about Detective…
Last month’s announcement that the Catholic order was about to go broke wreaked carnage everywhere I looked. Lives have been thrown into turmoil. Early last month, Peter* had some welcome news. The Christian Brothers had agreed to settle. The Catholic…
Nearly two years after Whanaketia, the Royal Commission’s final report into Abuse in Care, Ruwhiu says survivors are still waiting for meaningful change, redress and recognition beyond Lake Alice. Nearly two years after the release of Whanaketia, the landmark Royal…
The vision is clear – a future where survivors are met with helpful social responses that affirm their inherent dignity and worth, respect their autonomy, support healing and social change. Download PDF
A survivor of torture at the notorious Lake Alice child and adolescent unit was forced to live in his house bus in a public car park after his accommodation supplement was wrongly cancelled. This meant Paul Zentveld, who has a…
Police files were supposed to pass through layers of checks and balances. Now 54 sexual assault and child abuse cases are being investigated again, leaving victims to trust the system a second time, while police face questions about why their…
Former Prime Minister Bill English once hailed a charity as a rare success in reducing youth reoffending in South Auckland. That charity, Genesis Youth Trust, has now closed after failing to secure more Government funding. A young Papakura woman had…
Police have reopened 54 adult sexual assault and child abuse investigations after concerns about one senior officer triggered a review of close to 1,000 files. The long-serving senior officer now faces an employment process. Following questions from Stuff, police have…
