In December the Abuse in State Care Royal Commission published its specific inquiry into the former Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit (1972 to 1980).
Last month New Zealand extended its commitment to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Children’s Convention) by agreeing to a
In December an independent report into the performance of agencies involved in service provision related to Malachi Subecz was released. Malachi was badly tortured on
Household Labour Force Survey Data Statistics New Zealand released quarterly economic reports including the labour force survey. The department heads its website with the (correct)
In the social sector we have reviewed the benefit factsheets released for the last quarter, and as noted above, a new report on child poverty.
The Ministry of Health has also recently published the new gambling harm reduction strategy, and its associated implementation plan, which set out the Government’s approach
Statistics New Zealand has released a dataset on wellbeing derived from the 2021 General Social Survey. We have disaggregated this data to show Māori-specific
This week we have also reviewed the ‘Specialist Family Violence (add: prevention) Organisational Standards’. These five performance standards arise from the Strategy to Eliminate Family
Our second review is of NCEA results for 2021, which were released last month. We rate this work as marginal, as like other years, all
This week we have reviewed the child poverty indicators report. We consider this item is of good quality for the task it does – but
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