(e) Details of specific legislation and policy changes to counter online extremism, including details of any child rights impact assessments undertaken. (f) Any measures to increase equity of internet access for children from low income or rural households. E. Violence against children Violence, abuse and neglect 53. As already noted, since the 2016 Concluding Observations, the care and protection system has been subject to extensive reform, culminating in the full commencement of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 on 1 July 2019. The Act has no mandatory reporting requirement, although the changes to its information sharing provisions are designed to enable agencies to share information as a matter of course.62 54. The Family Violence Act 2018, which, like the Oranga Tamariki Act, came into force on 1 July 2019, extensively updated New Zealand’s family violence legislation and introduced new information sharing provisions. The changes enable family violence agencies and social services practitioners to request and release information regarding risk and need assessments and plans, or other information to help to protect victims. Like the Oranga Tamariki legislation, the information sharing provisions in the Family Violence Act expressly emphasise the protection of the victim in precedence to duties of confidentiality and the disclosure principles in the Privacy Act.63 55. It is important to note that the enactment of the Family Violence Act 2018 occurred against a backdrop of reform and policy focus on reducing and preventing family and sexual violence. This has included working towards a strategy and action plan to reduce and prevent family and sexual violence, the establishment of a Ministerial Group, and the formation of a joint venture between government departments.64 56. However, despite these developments, currently there appears to be no consolidated reporting of family violence data to provide an overall profile of family violence in New Zealand. The most recent available report providing consolidated family violence data regarding children was produced by the non-government New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse (NZFVC) in 2017.65 57. In its last periodic review of New Zealand undertaken in 2018 the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women noted its concern at “the lack of a single integrated data source encompassing all data regarding domestic violence, disaggregated by sex, ethnicity, type of violence and the relationship of the perpetrator to the victim, including data on femicide, and the lack of sufficient funding for data-collecting agencies, including non-governmental agencies.”66 Violence against children: Recommendations The Commission recommends that the Committee seek the following information from the New Zealand government: 62 See above at paragraph 48 Family Violence Act 2018, section 21 64 https://www.justice.govt.nz/justice-sector-policy/key-initiatives/reducing-family-and-sexual-violence/workprogramme/ 65 https://www.nzfvc.org.nz/our-work/data-summaries/children-and-youth 66 CEDAW Committee, Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of New Zealand, 25 July 2018, paragraph 25(f) 14 63