The text below consists of the answers given by Anne Tolley (Minister of Social Development) to the written questions of Jacinda Ardern MP. We leave it to you to judge the adequacy of the answers. Feel free to comment using the comment box below.
Author: RSW Collective
The two Radio NZ interviews below discuss the draft report of the Productivity Commission on More Effective Social Services.
In the short video below Paora Moyle offers a Māori practitioner’s view on how the new CYF assessment framework, the Tuituia Framework, is used to assess whānau Maori.
A guest blog post by Kate Morris, Professor of Social Work at the University of Nottingham. Kate is one of the authors of Re-imagining Child Protection: Towards humane social work with families. In this post Kate reflects on her recent visit to Aotearoa New Zealand and the similarities between politically motivated reviews of child protection services in England and NZ.
Paora Moyle offers a Māori practitioner’s perspective on cultural identity and the meaning of the term “of Māori descent”.