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“Champion for Children” Awarded Honorary Fellowship
Wednesday, 25 March 2015, 11:21 am | Child Matters
Child Matters founder and chief executive Anthea Simcock was awarded an honorary degree from Wintec today in recognition of a lifetime dedicated to preventing child abuse in New Zealand. More >>
Buddy Day presented at UN Human Rights Council
Friday, 13 March 2015, 10:10 am | Child Matters
New Zealand child abuse awareness campaign Buddy Day received international recognition this week at a presentation to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. More >>
Safe recruitment guidelines for children's workforce
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 2:36 pm | Child Matters
Social Development Minister Anne Tolley today launched new guidelines supporting agencies and organisations who work with children to create safe environments for New Zealand children. More >>
Importance of Choosing an Appropriate Babysitter
Thursday, 15 January 2015, 3:49 pm | Child Matters
Parents cannot be too careful in deciding who they will leave in charge of their children, says national child abuse prevention organisation Child Matters. This advice follows news yesterday when a woman was charged with the murder of a one-year-old ... More >>
Community and national leaders lined up to attend Buddy Day
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 2:21 pm | Child Matters
Buddy Day, taking place this Friday (14 November), is shaping up to be an action-packed event with overwhelming support from community and national leaders in the four participating centres of Wellington, Tauranga, Hamilton and Auckland. More >>
Auction raises awareness for child abuse prevention
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 1:34 pm | Child Matters
The message that it’s up to all of us to keep kids safe was shared more than 16,000 times last week, thanks to the recent creativity of some household Kiwi names. More >>
Artists, celebrities use creativity to help keep kids safe
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 4:59 pm | Child Matters
Some household Kiwi names are getting their creative on in the name of protecting New Zealand children. And the public has the chance to do their bit by bidding on and buying the famous creations. More >>
Tauranga law firm leads the anti-child abuse charge
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 3:03 pm | Child Matters
Tauranga law firm Cooney Lees Morgan has again partnered with national child advocacy organisation Child Matters to participate in the fourth annual ‘Buddy Day’ - New Zealand’s only child abuse prevention awareness day. More >>
‘Buddies’ gets adults talking about child abuse prevention
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, 2:20 pm | Child Matters
School children at Mount Maunganui Intermediate School are donning their creative hats in support of New Zealand’s annual child abuse prevention awareness day, Buddy Day, which is happening in the Tauranga on Friday, 14 November 2014. More >>
Children’s Teams Can Transform the Way We Protect Children
Thursday, 22 May 2014, 1:48 pm | Child Matters
Anthea Simcock, Chief Executive Officer of leading child abuse prevention organisation Child Matters, applauds Social Development minister Paula Bennett’s announcement of eight new Children’s Teams today, as they “provide an opportunity to transform ... More >>
Buddies get leaders talking about child abuse
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 10:41 am | Child Matters
Buddies waiting for adoption on Buddy Day The country’s leaders are getting behind Buddy Day which aims to bring the nation’s awareness to the issue of child abuse and the role every adult has in keeping children safe. From the 12 – 15 November ... More >>
Sovereign takes principal partner role with Child Matters
Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 11:05 am | Child Matters
Child Matters today announced Sovereign New Zealand as the principal partner for its annual Buddy Day, New Zealand’s only community event aimed at raising awareness and starting conversations about the role every adult plays in preventing child abuse. More >>
Tips To Keep Children Safe This Holiday Season
Thursday, 20 December 2012, 10:30 am | Child Matters
MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 December 2012 Tips To Keep Children Safe This Holiday Season More >>
Hamilton buzzing with talk about Buddies
Friday, 16 November 2012, 5:07 pm | Child Matters
A flat piece of cardboard decorated to look like a child certainly has no voice. But Hamilton business and community leaders today gave New Zealand’s real children a voice during Buddy Day through cardboard cut-out look-a-likes. More >>
Designing a better place for our children
Friday, 16 November 2012, 3:12 pm | Child Matters
Hamilton, New Zealand – An award winning architecture firm is taking the design of child safe environments to heart by supporting a New Zealand initiative that aims to raise awareness about child abuse and create conversations about what every adult ... More >>
10,000 conversations about child abuse prevention
Friday, 16 November 2012, 11:38 am | Child Matters
Hamilton, New Zealand – 335 people are expected to start around 10,000 conversations about child abuse prevention today in Hamilton. The annual child abuse prevention awareness campaign, Buddy Day, kicked off this morning at Claudelands Event Centre ... More >>
Buddies get ready for their big Buddy Day
Thursday, 15 November 2012, 5:35 pm | Child Matters
Hamilton, New Zealand – 335 cardboard children have been tucked in for an early night at the Claudelands Event Centre in Hamilton in preparation for Buddy Day tomorrow (Friday, 16 November), New Zealand’s second annual child abuse awareness day which ... More >>
International eyes on Buddy Day child protection campaign
Friday, 2 November 2012, 4:58 pm | Child Matters
Hamilton, New Zealand – As the annual child protection community awareness campaign Buddy Day gets underway today, one of New Zealand’s leading experts on child protection says her overseas counterparts are interested in the outcomes. Anthea Simcock, chief ... More >>
Child Matters delighted with White Paper priorities
Thursday, 11 October 2012, 2:06 pm | Child Matters
Amanda Meynell, Academic Services Manager of leading child abuse prevention organisation Child Matters, is delighted with the White Paper for Vulnerable Children, released today. More >>
Education and awareness can help decrease child abuse
Friday, 21 September 2012, 12:17 pm | Child Matters
National child advocacy organisation, Child Matters, is pleased to see a drop in the number of substantiated child abuse cases as reported by Child, Youth and Family (CYF) for the year ending June 2012. More >>
