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Declaration of Independence
In 1831, thirteen northern chefs petition to have King William IV to protect them. James Busby took this a step further and set up a meeting/hui with the chiefs in Waitangi. This Declaration was signed by thirty four northern chiefs of New Zealand. The declaration consisted of four articles. The chiefs still had authority over New Zealand but the asked King William IV ‘to continue to be the parent [matua] of their infant State' (NZ History, n.d). -
Treaty of Waitangi
This lead on from the Declaration of Independence that was signed in 1835. It is an agreement between the Maori and the British, in which the British would be sovereign over New Zealand but the Maori would still have rights and their welfare would be looked after. It was also to protect New Zealand from other countries trying to come and claim it from their own (Orange, 2004) -
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Kate Sheppard
Lead the movement to allow women to vote in New Zealand and succeeded and getting the bill passed.
According to Brynes(2009), Sheppard also helped with the Women's Christian Temperance Union(WCTU). She would enlist all types of people to help with the union. She did want to draw in "political influential freethinkers". -
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Florence Kelley
She started in Hall house with Jane Addams and then went to the Henry street settlement, which was in New Yorks lower east side in 1899. Here she surveyed the working conditions of the local factories and then passed the bill which stopped children under the age of fourteen working in these factories. This was the first factory law. She established the National child labour committee and also work as the secretary at the National Consumers Leagues(Bettencourt, 2014). -
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Jane Addams
She was a leading social reformer of her day. She founded Hall house which is in Chicago, in 1889. Hall house helped people with health care, education, political stance and sports activities. It was for immigrants and other marginalized people get the help that they need. She created it so that in order to help someone, the causes were focused on and not the flaws of the people. She also helped women gain the right to vote (Bettencourt, 2014). -
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Mary Richmond
She researched on poverty and other social ill. She explained all of it in her book Social Diagnosis. She lead the Red Crosses home service in the World War II and would work with the servicemen and their families to face their problems with their own skills. She believed that the Person-centered care was a partnership. This is where the first case workers began (Bettencourt, 2009). -
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The Battle of Gate Pa
Pene Taka Tuaia built bunkers in Gate Pa, he learnt during the Northern War of 1845-46. This gave the British a false sense if security when they stormed Gate Pa, no more then fifteen Maori were killed by shellfire in this battle. General Cameron came to Tauranga thinking that he could defeat the Maori easily but didn't expect what was to come. He lead the heaviest artillery in Gate Pa (NZ History, n.d). It was an amazing victory for the Maori. -
Salvation Army
Was originated from a mission that was operating in 1865. The founders were William and Catherine Booth. They first were doing evangelistic meetings but they understood that not just the spiritual side of a person needed help. This lead to the Salvation Army helping people with material items; such as food and clothing (Salvation Army, 2016). -
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Bertha Reynolds
In 1925, she became the associate director of the Smith College School of Social work, this is where her work in Social Work was recognized. In this time, she became interested in Marxism and socialism and was also started calling for social workers to become unionized. She published two books, which is called "Between the client and the community" in 1973 and "Learning and teaching in the practice of social work" in 1942 (Steyaert, 2009). -
The Infant Life Protection Act
This Act was set up to protect the children under the age of two, who were not with their immediate family for three or more consecutive days for a fee. This was the result of the growing number of baby farms that were around at the time (Byrnes, 2009). -
Plunket
Was Founded by Sir Frederic Truby King. He had a vision to help mothers to save their babies not die from malnutrition and disease (Plunket, 2016). -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression started after some of the First World War issues were not resolved. It came in affect when the government resources and the existing welfare assistance collapsed. This included the pensions, public wages and salaries being cut backs. It was hard for people to keep their jobs and by 1933 forty per cent of adult males were unemployed. Maori also were receiving a lower work rate then the Pakeha. The Volunteer organisations could not keep with the high demand (Brynes, 2009). -
International Federation of Social Workers
This federation is the voice of one hundred and sixteen countries, regarding this profession. It wants the best for people. Their focus is to promote Social Work, advocate for social justice and facilitate international cooperation (IFSW, 2013). -
Maori Welfare Act
According to Brynes (2009) the Maori Welfare Act could be used to set up voluntary Maori welfare committees and be use to empower ways to help people work towards the common good of Maori in cities and to complement the work of Maori committees and executives. -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
This union worked with similar organisations for the necessary law changes that concerned with the social, economic and legal status of women and children (Byrnes, 2009). It was started in Cleveland, Ohio and Mary Clemant Leavitt, an American missionary came to New Zealand and Kate Shepard was the foundation member in New Zealand in 1885 (Smithies Media, n.d). -
1977-Open Home Foundation
Was founded by Ewen and Gillain Laurenson. The had difficult experiences with running a Social Welfare home so they decided to do a similar system but in a Christian network of families (OPF, 2016). -
Royal Commission on Social Policy
In July 1987, the royal commission of social policy distributed a smaller booklet on the Treaty and the social policy. The full report was released in April 1988 (Orange, 2004).The report is five books and it covers a range of issues that are within its definition of social policy. This report was very controversial and had a lot of criticism towards it, it still does to this day (Barnes & Harris, n.d). -
The Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act
This act is to preserve principles of "culturally appropriate, accessible and community based welfare and the primacy of family protection" according to Byrnes (2009). It makes people rethink what welfare actually is and how it is implemented in today's society. -
Shine
Since Shine was founded in 1990, it has become the largest domestic violence prevention service in New Zealand. Originally named 'Central Women's refuge' and it was formed by the National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges. Shine helps anyone that is affected by domestic violence; whether they are male, female, adult or child. The provide a range of services; from a crisisline,a twenty-four hour callout and advocacy team (Shine, 2015). -
Social Workers Registration Act
This act is to ensure that Social Workers in New Zealand are able to practice competently and up to a standard where the social workers and the public are safe. It is also there so the social workers have to be accountable and also a place that the public can complain against a registered social worker (Social Workers Registraction Act, 2003).
