All ages

Use a RAT test if your child has COVID-19 symptoms, or any cold or flu symptoms. Free rapid antigen tests (RATs) are widely available.

COVID-19 is airborne and can spread easily from one person to another. Wearing masks and ventilating spaces are key ways to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne illnesses. 

Most children with COVID-19 will have a mild illness. Find out about how to care for your child at home and when to see a doctor.

Being a tube feeding family can have its challenges, but there are things which can help make the journey easier. Families have shared their tips, tricks and life hacks on what works for them. For advice about your own child, check with your health professional.  

Heard talk about genome sequencing and COVID-19 and want to know more? Check out this short animation for tamariki from Māui Studios with support from the University of Otago and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research. It features Koro, a scientist and his granddaughter, Ruia, who is intrigued by science and technology but tired of kōrero about COVID-19.

Quick tips for your child's COVID vaccination - what to do before, during and after your child has their vaccine.

The emotional wellbeing of tamariki (children) and rangatahi (young people) is better when whānau can get the right support. Kiwi families have access to parenting support to improve emotional wellbeing for our tamariki.

Hear from Ana - a mum who has been through a tube feeding journey with her daughter Temika.

Hear from Kiri - a mum who has been through a tube feeding journey with her son Nathan.

Check some tips and resources for supporting tamariki (children) and rangatahi (young people)  through the COVID-19 immunisation process. This includes resources for supporting those with disabilities.

If your child has been tube fed, and is moving to eating and tube weaning, you will have support from a team. Find out what the process might look like.

Check the things you can expect from the service that carries out the needs assessment for your child.

A listing of organisations, resources and support available for parents, family and whānau of children and young people with cerebral palsy.

Skills like learning to crawl or walk, wave or talk are called developmental milestones. These milestones are things most pēpi (babies) and tamariki (children) can do by a certain age. All tamariki are different and develop at different speeds and in their own time.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a very common virus in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is one of many viruses that cause infections of the respiratory tract - the parts of the body related to breathing. 

Children and young people with diabetes aged 5 years and over can have their COVID-19 immunisation now. The Paediatric Society Clinical Network for Diabetes recommends all children 5 years and over with diabetes have the COVID-19 vaccine to help protect against COVID-19.