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Child changes and social obligations

There are some changes of circumstance that may mean the client is no longer required to comply with their social obligations including where:

  • a dependent child changes age and the social obligation that applied for the dependent child in their care is no longer relevant or
  • child leaves care (for example starts to live with another parent or caregiver or goes into the care of Oranga Tamariki)

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Legislation

Oranga Tamariki-Ministry for Children is known as "Oranga Tamariki". It came into existence on 1 April 2017, and replaced what was known as "Child, Youth and Family" or CYF.

Its original name, from 1 April 2017 until 18 January 2018, was the "Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Oranga Tamariki".