Agency Responses

Monitored agencies are required to formally respond to our reports. They have 20 working days to respond to our Experiences of Care in Aotearoa and Outcomes for Tamariki Māori reports, and 35 working days to respond to our focused reviews. Once we receive these formal responses we have 10 working days to publish our report, alongside the responses we receive.

These responses often include commitments from agencies to do things that will address issues raised in our reports. We keep track of these commitments and what progress has been made. We assess progress based on the completion dates originally provided by agencies.

You can read the list of commitments here.

The list includes commitments included that:

• clearly relate to findings we have made in one or more of our reports
• are specific and detailed
• are still being progressed by an agency, or have been recently completed.

The table does not include every finding we have made – only those where an agency has made a clear commitment in response.

The table also does not include commitments arising from our two Towards a stronger safety net to prevent abuse of children reports, as agencies report on progress with these separately.

Agency Commitments as at 16 March 2026

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