This guide is for people in iwi and community social service agencies,educational providers, healthcare providers and other groups or services who have contact with or work with
tamariki, rangatahi and their family/whānau.

You may be the first to notice when a family/whānau needs support or when there are concerns about tamariki or ragatahi.

You could have an important role in providing support to
the family/whānau, orsharing your concerns with someone, while maintaining openness, respect and confidentiality for te tamaiti, rangatahi, parents/carers and family/whānau.

This guide is designed to sit alongside your own
Child Protection Policy. It also complements the
free one-day ‘Working Together’ child protection seminars that Oranga Tamariki run nationwide in partnership with ChildMatters, and the training and eLearning sessions run by Safeguarding Children. This guide replaces previous guides published by Office of the Children's Commissioner, (#2869), and by Child, Youth and Family, 2011 (#3777), and updates the 2020 version of this guide (#7019). Record #8744