About this item

Issue date:
26 September 2025
Status:
Current
Corporate Author:
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
Document date:
March 2025
Type:
Guidance
Topic:
Children and young people, Health infrastructure
Location:
National
Copyright status:

© Crown Copyright, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

ISBN:
978-1-991139-56-6 (online)

This document provides guidance to health and education agencies to design, provide and enable appropriate rangatahi support spaces, with a focus on delivery of School Based Health Services (SBHS). It was prepared by Health New Zealand (Health NZ) with support from the Ministry of Education and Oranga Tamariki. Schools and wharekura with the most effective models of good guidance and counselling practice are those that house guidance and counselling staff in appropriate spaces that facilitate private communication and make it comfortable for rangatahi to seek help.  The guidance uses the Australasian Health Facility Guidelines  (AusHFG) that all health facilities refer and align to.