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Protocols Review Timely and Appropriate
24 August 2009
Media Statement
The Yes
Vote Coalition
Protocols Review Timely and Appropriate
Prime Minister John Key's announcement
today of a review of referral protocols between the Police
and the Child Youth and Family services is a positive step
to entrenching the child discipline law as it now
stands.
"The first aim of those protocols should be to ensure that struggling parents are encouraged to get good help," says Deborah Morris-Travers, spokesperson for the Yes Vote coalition, which supports the law as it stands.
"The Government has shown considerable political courage in standing up for New Zealand children by reacting as it has to the result of the referendum.
"Member organisations of the Yes Vote coalition look forward to being invited to work with the Police/CYFS review, especially to the extent that referral protocols also apply to non-government family help agencies," Ms Morris-Travers says.
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