Safeguarding Children Initiative

Too many people in Aotearoa accept child abuse as inevitable. Safeguarding Children does not.

Founded by former frontline nurses and police officers, we know what abuse looks like, what it costs, and what it takes to prevent it. For 15 years, we have worked alongside organisations and communities across Aotearoa to build cultures where children are protected and the adults around them are ready to act. More than 100,000 Safeguarding Children courses have now been completed.

Aotearoa New Zealand has some of the highest rates of child abuse and neglect in the developed world. For Māori, Pacific, Rainbow and disabled children, systemic inequities mean the risk is even greater. But no child's story is written by their circumstances alone.

Too many children are still unseen, unheard and unprotected. That is why this work must continue.

As a registered charity, we rely on training income, grants and donations to keep going. Your support helps us reach more communities, train more organisations, and prove, again and again, that harm can be stopped before it starts.

Please donate today.

Together, we can ensure every child in Aotearoa is safe, seen and supported.