
IN-CONFIDENCE
OIA-CE-2025-02841
04 April 2025
Susan Stevenson
[FYI request #30445 email]
Tēnā koe Susan,
Thank you for your email, received on 17 March 2025, to Oranga Tamariki—Ministry
for Children (Oranga Tamariki) requesting information on percentage of Vote Oranga
Tamariki spending. Your request has been considered under the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act).
You have requested:
•
I would like to know the percentage of the total Vote Ministry for Children
spend on Prevention Wellbeing for the last [last] 6 years? (Prevention of
abuse, neglect and family violence)
The information you have requested is publicly available in the Oranga Tamariki
Annual Reports.
Please note, reporting of spending is done as whole figures, rather than percentages.
In addition, this spend is reported under the category of Prevention and Early Support,
except for the 2018/2019 report, where it is described in two separate categories –
Early and Intensive Supervision, and Prevention.
For your convenience, I have listed links to the reports below, as well as the pages
containing the information you have requested:
•
Oranga Tamariki Annual Report 2023/24 (page 118)
•
Oranga Tamariki Annual Report 2022/23 (page 143)
•
Oranga Tamariki Annual Report 2021/22 (page 122)
•
Oranga Tamariki Annual Report 2020/21 (page 111)
•
Oranga Tamariki Annual Report 2019/20 (page 119)
•
Oranga Tamariki Annual Report 2018/19 (page 119).
As such, your request is refused under section 18(d) of the Act, as the information is
or wil soon be publicly available.
Oranga Tamariki may make the information contained in this letter available to the
public by publishing this on our website with your personal details removed.

IN-CONFIDENCE
I trust you find this information useful. Should you have any concerns with this
response, I would encourage you to raise them with Oranga Tamariki. Alternatively,
you are advised of your right to also raise any concerns with the Office of the
Ombudsman. Information about this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
or by contacting them on 0800 802 602.
Nāku noa, nā
Betty O’Connor Scurr
Chief Financial Officer
People Culture and Enabling Services
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