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Abuse in Care - Royal Commission of Inquiry

This Royal Commission is an independent inquiry into abuse in state care and in the care of faith-based institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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“Court in the Act” A regular newsletter for the entire Youth Justice Community, the Youth Court of New Zealand, Issue 42 (April 2009) (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Brochure by Whakapakari Youth Trust (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Gluckman, P, It’s never too early, never too late - A discussion paper on preventing youth offending in New Zealand (Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, 2018) (PDF, 2 MB)

Nippert, M, Escape from ‘Alcatraz’ - What really happened to boys sent to a boot camp on a remote island - New Zealand Listener (20 September 2008) (PDF, 5.9 MB)

Nippert, M, The Lost Boys of the Barrier, NZ Herald (5 September 2015) (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Shalev, S, Uses and abuses of solitary confinement of children in State-run institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand, Expert opinion prepared for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care (July 2022) (PDF, 1006 KB)

The Ministerial Review of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services, Report to the Minister of Social Services by Michael J A Brown (December 2000) (PDF, 6.4 MB)

Transcript of evidence of Barry Fisk, General Manager of Te Kāhui Kahu at the Ministry of Social Development, at the Inquiry’s State Institutional Response Hearing (15 August 2022) (PDF, 2.7 MB)

Transcript of evidence of Debbie Power, Ministry of Social Development, at the Inquiry’s State Institutional Response Hearing (15 August 2022) (PDF, 1.9 MB)

Transcript of evidence of Public Services Commissioner Peter Hughes at the Inquiry’s State Institutional Response Hearing (26 August 2022) (PDF, 990 KB)

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, The United Nations revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the ‘Nelson Mandela Rules’) (17 December 2015) (PDF, 901 KB)

Williams, DV, The abolition of borstal training - A penal policy reform or a failure to reform penal policy (New Zealand Legal Information Institute, 1984) (PDF, 698 KB)

Witness statement of Ngatokorima Allan Mauari (2 July 2021) (PDF, 1.1 MB)

Evidence library
  • Part 1
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  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  • Part 5
  • Part 6
  • Part 7
  • Part 8
  • Part 9
  • Cauldron of violence - Hokio Beach School and Kohitere Boy’s Training Centre
  • Out of sight, out of mind: A case study of the Kimberley Centre
  • Our hands are tied - Van Asch College and Kelston School for the Deaf
  • Boot Camp - Te Whakapakari Youth Programme
  • Jehovah's Witnesses - Case Study
  • Stolen Lives, Marked Souls – The Inquiry into the Order of the Brothers of St John of God at Marylands School and Hebron Trust
  • Beautiful Children: Inquiry into the Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit
  • He Purapura Ora, he Māra Tipu from Redress to Puretumu Torowhānui
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