Crown to step down, Māori to step up: Oranga Tamariki breaches Treaty
30 Apr, 2021 12:00 AM
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Five inquiries were launched against Oranga Tamariki under former chief executive Graine Moss leadership. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Five inquiries were launched against Oranga Tamariki under former chief executive Graine Moss leadership. Photo / Mark Mitchell
Reporter, NZ Herald
The Waitangi Tribunal has called on the Crown to step down after a report found state care provider Oranga Tamariki to be a foundation of structural racism.
The Tribunal now recommends that a Māori Transition Authority be established and is calling on the Crown to support this establishment for Māori to lead the way.
Suspected child abuse: Hawke s Bay DHB calls police or Oranga Tamariki 116 times in 5 years
29 Apr, 2021 11:23 PM
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The DHB has wraparound services like Te Ara Manapou to help families in need. Photo / File
The DHB has wraparound services like Te Ara Manapou to help families in need. Photo / File
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Sahiban Hyde
Hawke s Bay District Health Board has treated 116 children with injuries related to suspected physical or sexual abuse in the past five years. The statistics revealed to the Hawke s Bay Today in an Official Information Act response show the DHB saw six cases of suspected sexual or physical abuse in children aged 0 to 17 in the first two months of the year alone.
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Judge Andrew Becroft intervened in the case after the boy, 13, wrote to him following his suspension for his involvement in a fight.
The boy moved to the school last year as a directed enrolment, meaning the Ministry of Education ordered the school to enrol him after it initially refused.
The boy s letter, provided to RNZ by his mother, said his school would not let him participate in regular school activities and kept him in a room with a teacher away from but in full view of other children. I m having a really hard time at school at the moment and hate being treated so differently to all the other students. I just want to make some friends and be treated like everyone else. I hate being bullied and laughed at because the teachers treat me differently and so do the other students, he wrote.