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On The Royal Commission Inquiry Into Abuse In Care
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:45:16 +1200 | Gordon Campbell
Chris Hipkins was applauded for saying that the response to the final report of the Inquiry into Abuse in Care had to be “bigger than politics.” True, but the apologies will soon ring pretty hollow if the state doesn’t treat its response as an overriding ...More >>
Hurunui Residents Design Age-friendly Community
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:16:44 +1200 | Hurunui District Council
Hurunui residents are being asked to design a community where older residents feel safe, valued and able to participate in local democracy. More >>
Te Waipounamu Celebrates 10 Years Of Whānau Ora
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:12:24 +1200 | Te Putahitanga o Te Waipounamu
Communities across Te Waipounamu will come together this weekend to celebrate 10 years of Whānau Ora, a ground-breaking approach to whānau well-being. More >>
New Child Poverty Targets Reflect A Lack Of Ambition For Children
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:05:01 +1200 | Mana Mokopuna
We need bold, focused action and significant investment to help alleviate many of the stressors placing pressure on our poorest, most disadvantaged families, and ensure all children can grow up safe and thriving.More >>
National Disgrace For Children In Poverty
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:47:08 +1200 | New Zealand Labour Party
"Lifting children out of poverty is the moral obligation of any good government. This one clearly doesn’t have any,” Carmel Sepuloni said. More >>
Abuse In Care Inquiry Final Report Made Public, Commissioners Call For Reform And Redress
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:10:17 +1200 | RNZ
The report found abuse was rife in state and faith-based care settings and the state failed to respond to signs of systemic abuse and neglect. More >>
Anglican Church Response To Royal Commission Report On Abuse In State Care
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:00:39 +1200 | Anglican Church in Aotearoa
We call on all who identify as Anglican; whether churches, schools or agencies to study this report and its recommendations and to commit themselves to the principles and practices that ensure the highest standards of pastoral care.More >>
The Health & Disability Commissioner Acknowledges The Final Report Of The Royal Commission Of Inquiry Into Abuse In Care
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:39:33 +1200 | Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Many of the recommendations are consistent with the Code of Rights which gives people using health and disability services the right to complain, and requires providers to facilitate the fair, simple, speedy resolution of complaints.More >>
Government Acknowledges Torture At Lake Alice
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:18:17 +1200 | New Zealand Government
The Minister responsible for coordinating the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry, Erica Stanford, says throughout the 1970s patients at Lake Alice were given electric shocks without anaesthetic, as well as painful and immobilising paraldehyde ...More >>
Govt Must Listen To Experiences Of Abuse Survivors
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:15:09 +1200 | Green Party
This five-year inquiry involved painstaking collation of stories from people who have experienced grave mistreatment in care. We as a country have a duty to ensure this inquiry wasn’t in vain.More >>
Another Step Forward For Survivors Of Abuse In Care
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:10:56 +1200 | New Zealand Labour Party
We owe it to survivors to closely read this report, to hear the human stories behind it and work through the recommendations made. More >>
PM Speech To Parliament – Royal Commission Of Inquiry’s Report Into Abuse In Care
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:07:50 +1200 | New Zealand Government
It is important that, as a country, we bring to the surface and understand the hard truths of what happened so we can try and move forward together. More >>
Government Acknowledges Courageous Abuse Survivors
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:04:34 +1200 | New Zealand Government
The report made 138 recommendations which the Government will now consider alongside the 95 recommendations from the interim report which was released in December 2021. More >>
SPCA Prosecutes Woman Over Morbidly Obese Dog
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:36:08 +1200 | SPCA
Nuggi spent around two months in SPCA’s care, where he lost 8.9kg - around 16.5 percent of his body weight. Sadly, despite making progress with his weight loss, Nuggi died suddenly due to an acute haemorrhage from a ruptured mass on his liver.More >>
Lawyers For Survivors Welcome The Royal Commission’s Final Report
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:28:23 +1200 | Cooper Legal
Cooper Legal celebrates and welcomes the tabling of the Royal Commission’s final report, Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness to light (“Whanaketia”), but also remembers those survivors who have died waiting for accountability.More >>
Paid Parental Leave Improvements Pass First Reading
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:16:13 +1200 | New Zealand Government
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says a bill that has passed its first reading will improve parental leave settings and give non-biological parents more flexibility as primary carer for their child.More >>
Ethnicity, Equality And Pharmac: How The Treaty Really Guides NZ’s Drug-buying Policies
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:17:25 +1200 | The Conversation
David Seymour’s expectation that drug-buying policy be based on need rather than ethnicity misses the point: the Treaty of Waitangi is already about equality, and can help guide good decisions.More >>
“We Will Not Be Silenced”- Rangatahi Abused In Care System After 1999 Have Voices Heard By Royal Commission Of Inquiry
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:39:33 +1200 | VOYCE Whakarongo Mai
The scope of the original inquiry covered the abuse and neglect of children, young people and adults in state and faith-based care from 1950 to 1999, but the investigation also heard from some survivors who were abused since then.More >>
Natural Heritage Fund Open For 2025
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:28:02 +1200 | Gisborne District Council
Applications for Gisborne District Council’s 2025 round of the Natural Heritage Fund are now open. More >>
Stratford District 2024 Citizen Award Recipients Announced
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 08:35:23 +1200 | Stratford District Council
Stratford District Council is delighted to announce the Stratford district Citizen Awards recipients for 2024. The awards recognise the district’s local champions who go above and beyond for the community.More >>
