We produce a Long-Term Insights Briefing at least once every 3 years.
Briefings review current trends and the risks or opportunities they bring. They can also be aspirational and suggest ways to respond to what we know. This means they can be used to inform a strategic direction.
We held 2 public consultation phases to develop our briefing:
- Phase 1 was a consultation to help decide the topic and how we should explore it. The consultation was held in November 2024.
- Phase 2 was a consultation on the draft of our briefing held from April to mid-May 2025. This is now closed for feedback, but the draft briefing is still available below.
Our briefing topic
Our topic enables us to explore the opportunities and challenges with preventing and responding to child maltreatment.
The topic is:
- How can we better prevent, respond to, and enable healing from, child maltreatment between now and 2040?
Why this topic
This topic can enable discussion to support work across all children’s system agencies, the wider public sector, as well as enable partners and communities.
The topic is informed by the Oranga Tamariki Action Plan and Child and Youth Strategy and our Strategic Intentions 2024/25 - 2029/30. We confirmed the topic following public consultation in late 2024.
Our focus
The focus of our briefing is on how to avoid and address (further) harm to children and young people.
This means our topic focuses on those who experience maltreatment, whether they come to the attention of Oranga Tamariki or not.
Maltreatment is physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and neglect.
How we align with other initiatives
The draft briefing aligns with:
- the government target to reduce child and youth offending
- Te Aorerekura | National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence
- responses to Dame Karen Poutasi’s report or the Royal Commission into State Abuse.
More detail on the background of our topic is in our draft brief document.
Next steps
We are considering all feedback we received on the draft briefing. This will inform the final briefing document.
After we have reviewed all feedback, we will prepare the final document to be presented to government. Then, once it is finalised by government, it will be published on our website.
We expect the final briefing to be available in July 2025.
Visit the Public Service website to find out more about Long-Term Insights Briefings.