A range of different publications and reports were commissioned to help inform the Inquiry’s work. Read the material and review the conclusions of the research that were undertaken.

Arewa Ake te Kaupapa
Gang whānau with support from Professor Tracey McIntosh, July 2023
An independent submission from Gang whānau to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions

Korowai aroha – Position Statement and Key Asks
Te rōpū kaitiaki mō ngā teina e haere ake nei, July 2023
A report by the rōpū, Kaitiaki mō ngā teina e haere ake nei, made up of tangata whenua, Tauiwi, tangata whaikaha, migrants, gender diverse, rainbow rangatahi and parents ranging in age from 17-30 years old. The report gives voice to the rōpū and explains their key asks for the future.

As a Kid, I Always Knew Who I Was: Voices of Takatāpui, Rainbow and MVPFAFF+ survivors
Paora Moyle, Te Whāriki Manawāhine Research, July 2023
This report is provided for the Royal Commission so that Takatāpui, Rainbow and MVPFAFF+ survivors and their communities’ voices are upheld. It brings together content and reflections on those engagements and captures themes and key issues, as well as aspirations for meaningful
change.

Quantitative Analysis of Abuse in Care
DOT Loves Data, September 2023
The Inquiry contracted data analytics specialists DOT Loves Data to produce a quantitative analysis of the data collected from the accounts of the 2,329 survivors who registered with the Inquiry.  

Tell Me About You
Donald Beasley Institute, September 2022
The Inquiry contracted the Donald Beasley Institute to work with people with learning disabilities and neurodiversity to tell the stories of their experiences in State and faith-based care

Care to Custody: Incarceration Rates Research Report
Synergia, August 2022
This independent report matched the Oranga Tamariki records of more than 30,000 children and young people in State residential care between 1950 and 1999 with the government records to identify how many of these people had then gone on to serve a judicial custodial sentence.

Uses and abuses of solitary confinement of children in State-run institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand
Dr Sharon Shalev, July 2022
This independent research report examines the use of solitary confinement and its impacts on survivors.

Changes needed to the current system of child protection and care in Aotearoa
Ian Hyslop and Emily Keddell, June 2022
A retrospective and contemporary conceptual analysis –how children came into care and their journey through the foster care system, and with this including their exit from care. What changes need to be made to the foster system so that it can better address the needs of those children who are the subjects of intervention by the State and are removed from their families or those providing care for them.

Kohikohi Nga Kakano – Gather the seeds
Dr Tania Cargo, June 2022
This independent report examines the impact on attachment when mokopuna are removed from whānau, hapū and iwi, and placed in foster care.

Disability Overview
Dr Patsie Frawley, April 2022
This report provides an expert opinion on how disability, gender, age, culture, mental illness and race intersect in relation to experiences of abuse and neglect.

Economic cost of abuse in care
MartinJenkins, September 2021
This report examines the costs of abuse and neglect in care between 1950 and 2019, and provides high-level estimates of the lifetime costs to survivors, and to the New Zealand economy.

Hāhā-uri, Hāhā-tea – Māori Involvement in State Care 1950-1999
Ihi Research, co-researched and written with Māori survivors, July 2021
This independent research report, which was co-researched and written by Māori survivors, examines the overrepresentation of Māori in State care between 1950 and 1999.

Issues faced by ACC claimants
John Miller Law, April 2021
This report examines the issues faced by survivors of abuse and neglect in care when applying for cover under the accident compensation (ACC) scheme.

Size of cohorts and levels of abuse in State and faith-based care 1950 to 2019
MartinJenkins, October 2020
This report provides high-level estimates of the number of people in care, and the number of people likely to have been abused and neglected in care, between 1950 and 2019. A peer review of this report was undertaken.

Cracks in the Dam: invisible forces destroying families in Aotearoa – Independent research report
Max Rashbrooke and Angie Wilkinson, August 2019
This independent research report examines the social and economic forces underlying the placement of children and young people, particularly tamariki and rangatahi Māori, into care.