Legal Literacy — Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand
Reflective supervision.
Research that strengthens practice.
Reflective, culturally grounded professional supervision for social workers, health professionals, and social service practitioners — with someone fluent in both the work and the law underneath it.
The offer, plainly
One service. Done properly.
Supervision is the only service Legal Literacy offers — deliberately. One-to-one sessions, reflective in tone and grounded in both law and the realities of frontline practice, for social workers, health professionals, and social service practitioners.
Working in Aotearoa New Zealand also means working with cultural integrity. Supervision provides a space to reflect on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, culturally responsive practice, and the complexities of working alongside Māori, whānau, and our diverse communities with confidence and respect.
From NZ$100 / session
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The gap I kept meeting
Where this began.
Before Legal Literacy, there was frontline practice — including years spent working alongside whānau through Te Puawaitanga ki Ōtautahi Trust. That work showed Hannah Verheul-Cane something her training hadn't: how often social workers, and the people they serve, are asked to navigate legal processes they were never taught to read. Reports of concern, care and protection processes, tenancy disputes, family court timelines — the law sits underneath almost every decision a practitioner makes, and it is rarely part of supervision, education or research.
Legal Literacy was founded to close that gap: supervision that treats legal knowledge as part of good practice, not a separate skill to work out alone.
How the values sit inside the work
Three principles, held quietly.
Ako
Reciprocal learning
Supervision here isn't one-directional. Hannah learns from every practitioner she sits with, the same way they learn from her.
Tuakana-Teina
Mentorship, mutual growth
A relationship between someone further along and someone still finding their footing — one where both keep growing.
Kotahitanga
Unity, collective strength
The work of one practitioner is never really separate from the work of the whole sector. Supervision holds that connection in view.
Hannah is a qualified social worker with frontline experience, and has completed professional supervision training through the New Zealand Coaching and Mentoring Centre. Her practice is also shaped by her connection to Wairewa marae, on Banks Peninsula.
Upcoming
Presenting at the Global Fathering for Future of Child Welfare
8 October 2026 · 12:45pm–2:00pm · Online conference. Hannah will be presenting on legal literacy as a professional capability, joined by a panel of community members sharing their own stories.
Research, in progress
A PhD, alongside the practice.
Since 2021, Hannah has been working part-time toward a PhD — driven by the same question that started Legal Literacy: what would it take for social workers to hold the law with more confidence? The research is ongoing, and notes on what she's learning will be published as the work develops.
Get in touch
Say hello.
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A relaxed, no-pressure chat to see if supervision with Hannah is a good fit — just use the form and mention you'd like to book.
Location
Christchurch, Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Elsewhere
Occasional notes
A short, infrequent note on legal literacy and practice — nothing more often than that.