Oranga Tamariki lead New Zealand’s efforts to protect children and young people.

Its services include:

• working with children, young people and their families
• funding organisations to support communities to protect and help children
• helping young people accept responsibility for their offending and supporting them so they do not re-offend
• providing residential and care services for children who need care and protection and for young people who offend
• assessing people who wish to adopt children and reports to the Family Court on adoption applications
• helping people access information about past adoptions.