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?

Overhaul of the child protection laws puts emphasis on placing children in a safe, loving home.

Young offenders sent to bootcamp punched in the head and allegedly raped by supervisors.

Child Youth and Family is to review how it handled a case where five children were so badly neglected they had to eat rotten food.

A staff member was injured when two teenagers escaped from a CYF youth justice residence in Auckland.

A vulnerable boy's privacy was breached when sensitive personal information about his health and mental wellbeing were sent to the wrong person.

Oriwa Kemp, one of the women jailed over the brutal child abuse death of toddler Nia Glassie, has been convicted of assaulting her partner.

An autistic teen who spent two nights in a police cell will be temporarily housed in a motel after Child, Youth and Family were ordered to find suitable accommodation.

The Maori Party says the Child Youth and Family overhaul risks creating a "stolen generation" of Maori children.

The mother of a Hamilton primary school student believes the school and other authorities have tried to brush the incident under the carpet, reports say.

A Hastings primary school is bringing in self-defence tutors for its older girls because the girls are afraid of being sexually abused by older men.

Two children lived with convicted criminal despite father's repeated warnings; police now allege home was hub of P ring.

One of the women jailed over the death of Rotorua toddler Nia Glassie has had her third child removed from her care by Child Youth and Family at birth.

Child, Youth and Family says it is remanding young offenders to motel rooms with security guards because of a shortage of appropriate

The new Vulnerable Children's Ministry wants to recruit 1000 more foster parents in a dramatic bid to improve the quality of state care for children.

Young people in state care will soon have a right to stay in or return to care until they turn 21.

COMMENT: Recent cases indicate violence between and against children is widely accepted.

Teens were unlawfully detained for weeks on end in the seclusion wing of a youth justice facility run by Child Youth and Family, according to its own senior staff.

With gangs deeply ingrained in Hawke's Bay, a new government initiative to steer youth away from them could provide lasting benefit

A teenager has appeared in court in relation to a brutal carjacking in Panmure last week which left a 65-year-old woman in hospital.

A Dunedin youth advocate has hit out at Child, Youth and Family after young offenders have had to spend time in police cells.

A mother-of-four children was "in the grips of an extended drinking binge" when her four young children were found walking along a busy Hamilton street on their own.