Reimagining Social Work in AotearoaThis guest blog post represents the views of 46 final year social work students at the University of Auckland.
We are a cohort of final year social work students at the University of Auckland and want to share our thoughts on the conversation unfolding around the role and function of social work in Aotearoa New Zealand.
UNICEF NZ National Advocacy Manager, Deborah Morris-Travers talks about a new push to improve the lives of New Zealand children living in poverty.
Sign the petition to end child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
In the video below Paora Moyle offers a Māori practitioner’s view on cultural competency and the lack of clarity on cultural competency within social work practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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.
In my first ‘pictures in our heads’ post, I noted that assumptions about how problems and their solutions are to be understood are implicit in policies of all kinds. These assumptions influence how we frame the key issues. Therefore, the changes proposed by the Vulnerable Children’s Act and Children’s Action Plan contain assumptions that shape the way we think about the causes of, and solutions to, child abuse.