Address to Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Supervised Contact Services
3 November, 2008
Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier

Summary for parenting orders granted in the last 12 months:
Total Interim Parenting Orders with Contact 3324
Total Parenting Orders with Contact (Final) 4967
Total Parenting Orders with Contact (Interim or Final) 8291

Supervised Contact
Interim Parenting Orders with Supervised Contact 666
Parenting Orders with Supervised Contact (Final) 375
Total Parenting Orders with Supervised Contact (Interim or Final) 1041

Supervised Contact with an Approved Provider
Interim Parenting Orders with Approved Supervised Contact 253
Parenting Orders with Approved Supervised Contact (Final) 122
Total Parenting Orders with Approved Supervised Contact (Interim or Final) 375

You will see that of the total number of contact orders we make, the proportion of supervised orders is slight. Only about 1 in 8 cases of contact are required to be supervised.
Of the 1,041 orders we made for supervised contact, 375 were with approved providers. So the majority of supervised contact orders we made appear not to fall within state funded provisions.

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