Following the nationwide move to Alert Level 4 as part of the
government’s response to COVID-19, Oranga Tamariki established weekly operational reporting on key statistics in order to maintain oversight of the Oranga Tamariki operating system during COVID-19.

This document contains a snapshot of those key statistics, including reports of concern, notifier groups, notifications that required further action, entries to care, and referrals to youth justice family group conferences.

The snapshot covers Oranga Tamariki operations since early March 2020 (i.e. three weeks prior to the start of Alert Level 4) until the most recent available time period for each measure. It also includes comparison to the same time last year.

The weekly monitoring of this data has enabled us as an organisation to target our efforts and plan our response and recovery.

Note: Data is not official and has been specifically extracted to assist monitoring of the impact of COVID-19 on operations.
These weekly numbers are subject to change over time – official data is published on the Oranga Tamariki website each quarter.

For reference, the key dates are:
26 March 2020 – Start of Alert Level 4
28 April 2020 – Start of Alert Level 3
14 May 2020 – Start of Alert Level 2
9 June 2020 – Start of Alert Level 1

(From the document). Record #6737