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Government agencies are being urged to get on with changes to child protections.
A review in 2022 after Tauranga five-year-old Malachi Subecz was murdered recommended sweeping changes.
The Independent Children's Monitor says they haven't happened, and children are no safer today than when Malachi died.
Chief Executive Arrun Jones says these findings are disappointing.
"We'd hoped to see more progress, so it's disappointing not to have seen that."
LISTEN ABOVE
- 'The system is broken': Malachi's family call for mandatory reports of abuse
- Malachi's mum: 'Do not trust anyone with your kids who aren’t family’
- Damning review into Malachi Subecz murder finds agencies could have done more
- Malachi's misery: Oranga Tamariki slated by Ombudsman over inaction
- 'Heartbreaking': Children no safer today than when Malachi Subecz was brutally murdered
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