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 ideal ways to respond to what we know. This means they can be used to inform a strategic direction.
This is the second of 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 is a second consultation on the draft of our briefing. This is now open, and the draft briefing is 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 is 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.
How to have your say
Step 1: Prepare your feedback
Each section of our briefing document opens with optional feedback questions. Questions are provided after the introduction of each section in the document and below. There are 7 questions in total.
Questions are optional tools to help you review the briefing and guide your feedback. You can choose to use them or provide your response as you prefer.
Questions
Consultation questions on the options
1. a) What does success look like in relation to prevention, response, and healing between now and 2040?
b) What changes would be required to enable this?
c) What existing or planned work could be leveraged?
2. a) Are there any other topics that are important to consider?
b) If yes, what are they, and why are they important?
3. Given the role of the LTIB is to be aspirational and future focused, what other opportunities are there for the prevention of, response to, and healing from, child maltreatment?
Consultation questions on the trends
4. What opportunities and challenges do these trends present in relation to the prevention of, response to, and healing from, child maltreatment (and the options presented on pages 8 – 12)?
Consultation questions on the scenarios
5. Which scenario(s) is the most desirable and why?
6. Which scenario(s) is the most likely and why?
7. Thinking about one of the scenarios:
a) what are the opportunities for this scenario? And what changes would be required to realise the opportunities?
b) what are the challenges for this scenario? And what changes would be required to meet the challenges?
Step 2: Send us your feedback
Email your feedback to LTIB@ot.govt.nz before 5:00 pm, Monday 12 May 2025.
Next steps
Oranga Tamariki will consider feedback we receive on the draft LTIB and incorporate it into our final briefing. We expect the LTIB will be presented to the House and published in July 2025.
Visit the Public Service website to find out more about Long-Term Insights Briefings.