Girl wrote a heartbreaking letter to her mum telling of the alleged abuse.

Deaths a tragedy, but mInister says 'no' to children's register.

A teenager has been jailed for sexually abusing children placed in his family's care.

The Children's Commissioner has called for efforts to involve wider whānau in child cases.

WARNING: This article, or links to it, contains information about suicide.

12 Questions: AUT senior law lecturer Khylee Quince backs a more Maori approach.

Victim's mother furious man was allowed to work with public while awaiting trial.

An overhaul of CYFS cost nearly $17.5 million, figures released to the Herald show.

Family with brittle bone disease living in a motel because they cannot find a house.

At the heart of Moko's shocking death were two young mothers struggling to cope.

EXCLUSIVE: The father of a baby left to die in a hot car says his sentence was too light.

The Herald breaks down the evidence at the inquest into the death of Moko.

The Herald breaks down who knew what - and when - before Moko was killed.

Second day of Moko inquest hears evidence from social worker.

Coroner to probe Moko's horrific death - and what can be done to stop more children dying

Family Court supposed to put welfare of child first. But its orders terrorise kids.

Ruth Dyson regrets not asking questions about infamous youth justice facility.

Ministry of Education says it will do more to keep at-risk teens in mainstream schools.

Te Puna Wai ō Tuhinapo in Christchurch has had a troubled history.

The father of 14-year-old fleeing driver had been caught a night earlier.

Footage shows the toddler wandering lost before being helped to return home.

Almost 170 children were found to be abused in state care during five years.

Police investigated a relationship between a man in his 50s and a teenage girl.

The abuse suffered by five children has been slammed as "abhorrent" by CYF.

Comment: Will new Ministry for Vulnerable Children get it right, asks Lizzie Marvelly?

COMMENT: One of the women involved in the death of Nia Glassie about to have her fifth child. Taxpayers will raise all of them.

Oriwa Kemp is pregnant again, just months after CYF removed a child from her care at birth.