In April 2015, the Minister for Social Development, Anne Tolley, established an expert advisory panel to review the Child, Youth and Family Agency (CYF) and the care and protection system, and to determine how the lives of vulnerable children in New Zealand could be transformed. The panel’s report, released in December 2015, found the current system to be fragmented and lacking accountability It had proved itself unable to prevent re-abuse and re-victimisation, and to tackle the over-representation of Māori children. Compared to the total population, Māori children and young people were twice as likely to be notified to CYF.[i]