Child Matters

For 30 years Child Matters has led the way in advocating for the rights of children and educating to prevent child abuse.

Waikato

Child Matters was established in 1994 and the organisation's original vision holds true today.

Child Matters educates people who work with children to recognise and respond to the signs of abuse and neglect. To date, more than 50,000 people have been through Child Matters' practical and effective child protection training courses.

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Child Matters is a registered charitable trust dedicated to preventing harm to children in New Zealand. Since 1994 we have been working in communities throughout New Zealand, educating, supporting and inspiring adults to protect children.

Children are only harmed or neglected when adults who are in a position to help, lack the knowledge and confidence to keep them safe.

Child Matters provides guidance, advice, education and support to those in a position to act to protect children. Our training and education programmes provide adults with essential skills, and just as importantly the confidence, to intervene when a child needs help.

Preventing child abuse is everyone’s responsibility. Child Matters aims to move individuals from being bystanders to the problem of child abuse to being active participants in a community wide effort to prioritise the protection of children.