{"id":18347,"date":"2020-05-18T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/new-zealand-braces-for-spike-in-child-abuse-reports-as-covid-19-lockdown-eases"},"modified":"2020-05-18T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T02:27:21","slug":"new-zealand-braces-for-spike-in-child-abuse-reports-as-covid-19-lockdown-eases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18347","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand braces for spike in child abuse reports as Covid-19 lockdown eases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of children\u2019s welfare agency says toll could start to emerge after lockdown created \u2018perfect storm\u2019 of stress for struggling families<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As hundreds of thousands of children return to classrooms around New Zealand, welfare services are bracing themselves for a spike in reports of abuse and neglect after weeks of \u201cinvisible\u201d lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The country entered lockdown on 25 March and emerged late last week. During lockdown reports of family violence to police dropped, and reports of concern to Oranga Tamariki, the country\u2019s welfare agency for children, fell by around 40%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/new-zealand-braces-for-spike-in-child-abuse-reports-as-covid-19-lockdown-eases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of children\u2019s welfare agency says toll could start to emerge after lockdown created \u2018perfect storm\u2019 of stress for struggling familiesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs hundreds of thousands of children return to classro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,245,1069,934,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-children","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-domestic-violence","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18348,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions\/18348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}