Guidance
Child Protection Protocol (CPP)
All cases requiring an investigation response are worked in consultation with Police and must follow the Child Protection Protocol. We work to build and deepen our understanding of any harm impacting oranga for te tamaiti or rangatahi.Updates made to this guidance
Changes have been made to a number of pages on the Practice Centre to align with the practice approach. Specific changes include:
- Tiaki Oranga replaces the safety and risk screen, and is now being used throughout the life of a case, across service lines whenever we need to understand current safety.
- All references to the Tuituia domains and subdomains have been removed and we now promote the use of Te Puna Oranga and our models, tools and resources to build and deepen our understanding.
- The Tuituia report has been replaced with the assessment report.
What is the Child Protection Protocol
When a report of concern of potential harm, abuse or neglect may be a criminal offence, we must work together with Police to ensure our actions do not compromise each other's focus. The Child Protection Protocol: Joint Operating Procedures (CPP) is the process that we follow to ensure our repsonse is coordinated.
Within the CPP context, we are still responsible for building and deepening our understanding to ensure a quality assessment so that our decision-making responds to the individual immediate and long-term needs of all tamariki and rangatahi we work with.
When to follow it
We must follow the CPP when we are responding to complaints (Police) or reports of concern (Oranga Tamariki) that allege actions or behaviour that may constitute a criminal offence, and where there is a role for each party. These actions or types of behaviour fall into 3 categories:
- physical abuse
- sexual abuse
- neglect.
The CPP definitions are on pages 6 to 9 of the CPP joint operating procedures document.
If it is jointly decided that the alleged offending does not fit with the CPP definitions, we must still consider whether an assessment of care and protection concerns should be undertaken to address safety and wellbeing concerns.
Policy: Assessment
How to follow it
You can download the CPP joint operating procedures document to find out more.
Child Protection Protocol: joint operating procedures (PDF 821 KB)