New Zealand
- Arts and Entertainment
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Celebration of Children
- McDonald’s Pakuranga fire hero Harper Davis receives award
- Pupil judged best Korean language speechmaker
- A Christchurch teenager with an entrepreneurial spirit has started a pick-your-own-berries business – just in time for Christmas
- Mangakino School wins over $50k of school supplies from viral video
- Child Abduction
- Child Custody
- Child protection
- Child Sexual Abuse
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Children in Conflict with the Law
- Teens arrested after overnight trip to Auckland
- Teens arrested after smashing Parakai store, fleeing on moped
- Sleep supplement melatonin prescribed to almost half of youth detainees in South Australia
- Number of youths kept in police cells 10 times higher than two years ago
- Five youths as young as 12 allegedly ram-raid Silverdale Mall on Auckland’s Hibiscus Coast
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Education
- Student hunger, bad teachers revealed in latest PISA tests showing dip in NZ teens’ scores.
- A classroom without walls: New Zealand’s nature schools emphasise mud over maths
- New Zealand Schools to Launch Crypto Education Curriculum in 2026
- Schools close in New Zealand after play sand recalled over asbestos fears
- Teachers shocked by government decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools
- Charter high school for Pasifika girls to open in Auckland next year
- Government announces new charter school for secondary students with autism
- Regional school terms could help attendance battle – Seymour
- Secondary school teacher industrial action starts
- Primary school teachers to strike for full day
- Two state schools poised to become charter schools
- Papanui High School brings back uniforms for seniors after decades without
- Students’ time to shine on PM’s visit
- “It’s hard to survive”: Heartbreak as east Auckland creche to close
- School pupils drawn to Discord’s helpful tech
- Principal “slimed” as school hits fundraising target
- New Zealand banned phones in schools 12 months ago. Here’s what happened
- Gisborne school to close after 60 years as student numbers dwindle
- What the Ministry of Education is being told about school lunches
- One country wants to close math achievement gaps by ending academic tracking
- Community rallies to ensure primary school students all get Christmas gifts
- Oranga Tamariki funding cuts: Triplets fight loss of school counsellor
- Community rallies after Ōtara classrooms ransacked
- School overwhelmed with gifts after error in Christmas order
- Charter schools: Bombay Hills school Tipene set to reopen in 2025 for Māori and Pacific boys
- Te reo Māori Teacher Training Cut by $30m to Fund Maths Resources
- AI use in NZ Schools: ‘I Just put in a Prompt and Spark Some Ideas’
- Students Using Artificial Intelligence to Cheat on Assessments, Teachers Warn
- Qualifications Authority Caps Number of Students Who Can Sit Online Test at Any One Time
- Low Pass Rates in New Online NCEA Literacy, Numeracy Tests Worry Secondary Teachers
- NCEA Test Pass Rates Much Lower in Schools From Poor Communities
- Government Extends Alternative to Tough Literacy and Numeracy Tests
- Education Body calls for Overhaul of Early learning Rules, ‘Ineffective’ Teacher to Child Ratios
- New NCEA Level 1 Standards Adding to Workload for Teachers and Students
- Government Told Free School Lunches have ‘Profound Impact on Wellbeing’ Before Funding Cuts
- Only Two Children Remain at Preschool in Wealthy Auckland Suburb
- What you Need to Know About the Draft English and Maths Curriculums
- Government’s new Maths and Literacy Curriculum Plans ‘Insane’, Principals Say
- ‘At Breaking Point’: Summit Seeks Solutions for Teacher Shortage
- Teens are Losing Interest in School, and Say They Hear About College ‘a Lot’
- Education Ministry Considers Increased Support for NCEA Tests
- Autonomous Mowers in School Fields of the Future
- Wellington Girls’ College Students to Learn From Home at Times During Next Six Weeks
- Ministry Apologises to High Schools Over Quake Risk Communication
- Education Lives Beyond the Bounds of Black and White
- Bilingualism Under Threat: Structured Literacy will Make it Harder for Children to Hold on to Their Mother Tongue
- Watch: Christopher Luxon holds post-Cabinet press conference
- Concerns Raised About New Teacher Maths Requirement
- Declining PhD Student Numbers are a Warning Sign for NZ’s Future Knowledge Economy
- Imagining a Better School System for New Zealand
- Ministry of Education Halts 100 School Building Projects
- Northland School Board Pleads Guilty to Charges After Fatal School Caving Trip in 2023
- Embedding First Nation knowledge and practices in primary/middle school mathematics and science
- The reasons behind our decision to enroll our children in public school
- Preserving His Right to Identity: Introducing Tieri to J.F Odunjo’s Alawiye (Parts 1-6)
- Family Finance
- Health Matters
- Missing Person
- Neglect
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Physical Abuse
- New Zealand woman gets life sentence for ‘suitcase murders’ of her children
- ‘It’s never too late to do the right thing’: Police appeal for truth, two years on from Baby Ru killing
- New Zealand woman convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases
- NZ woman found guilty of killing her two children in ‘suitcase murders’
- Whangārei Oranga Tamariki caregivers’ child abuse trial closed to the public after complainant walks out
- NZ ‘suitcase murder’: Anti-depressants found in children’s bodies
- Child allegedly killed in east Auckland
- Hamilton family harm: Homicide investigation underway after child killed, others injured
- Rotorua child abuse case: Nia Glassie’s murderers, brothers Wiremu and Michael Curtis, up for parole
- Homicide investigation launched after man drives to Manukau Police Station with dead child in car
- Court told baby sustained injuries consistent with being ‘thrown into a wall’ as father denied bail
- Funeral date set for 5-year-old Miles Rotich after Avalon Park drowning
- Child who drowned at Lower Hutt’s Avalon Park named on Givealittle
- Research Pool
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Strong Room
- How do I know if my teen is entangled in ‘toxic masculinity’?
- New Zealand House Speaker Feeds Lawmaker’s Baby During Parliament Debate
- Parmar: Replacing parents won’t protect children
- Police mistake 11-year-old for missing woman, drug her, place her in psychiatric ward
- Almost 100,000 Kiwi kids in poverty
- Behaviour Problems in Children Linked to maternal Stress, Screen Time -Study
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The S.A.F.E Schools Projects®️
- ‘Children Put at Risk’: Teacher Caught Drinking Wine on Duty Sparks Safeguarding Alarm
- Bullying Epidemic in ACT Public Schools: Reports Soar 55% in Four Years
- Mum wants charges laid after toddler slapped at Melbourne childcare centre
- Alice Springs school principal found guilty of assaulting Indigenous student
- Two childcare workers charged over alleged toddler assaults at Doonside centre in Sydney’s west
- Sarah Kopp’s teacher Paul Grealy groomed her at 15. As an adult, she held him to account
- Sexual predator taught in Brisbane schools for nine years after parents’ complaints
- Justice After Silence: The Documentary Unveiling Malka Leifer’s Crimes
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