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www.
childmatters
.org.nz
Every child deserves to
fourish in an environment
safe from all abuse.
Child Matters is determined to ensure
that this happens.
Child Matters is New Zealand’s specialist child abuse prevention
organisation. We ‘speak up’ for children so that adults will not overlook,
ignore or condone violence. Our role is to increase public awareness,
and provide adults with the right information which will give them the
confdence to act when they believe a child is in danger. We do this by;
Raising understanding and awareness of the issue
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Educating and inspiring those working with children
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Infuencing change in society’s attitudes and behaviours
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Child Protection Training
Child Matters is New Zealand’s only specialist provider of child
protection related training and education.
Training for people working with children and families is absolutely
critical. Many people working with children assume that they would
know how to recognise and respond to child abuse if the situation
arose. Sadly the reality is often quite different.
To protect children, people need to have the:
skills
to know what to look for,
knowledge
to know what to do, and
confdence
to take the appropriate action.
Child Matters training programmes support people to gain the skills,
knowledge and confdence to help them to keep children safe.