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Frankly, I would much prefer we had a welfare state that generously assisted short-term beneficiaries, tiding them over while they found their feet and re-entered the workforce. The travesty facing New Zealand is that entrenched long-term dependence is continuing to mushroom under this Government. When Jacinda Ardern was first sworn in as prime minister, 289,788 people, or 9.8 per cent of the working-age population, were receiving a main benefit. That has now jumped to 365,937 Kiwis, or 11.7 per cent of the working age population, according to the Ministry of Social Development’s (MSD) Ma...

Jake Kenny05:00, May 05 2021 STACY SQUIRES/Stuff New Zealand Post’s commercial kitchen has been invaluable to the Christchurch City Mission’s catering service, which runs work experience cooking classes for the city’s most vulnerable people. If you can’t handle the heat, get a new kitchen. The Christchurch City Mission’s social enterprise, Thrive Catering, is relieved to have moved to a new state-of-the-art commercial kitchen as it continues to provide cooking classes and other essential lessons to Christchurch’s most vulnerable. Thrive offers work experience courses for City Mi...

An artist's impression of the redeveloped Christchurch City Mission. Photo: Wilkie + Bruce Architects / Christchurch City Mission Work is under way on the $10 million project to upgrade its facilities on Hereford Street in the central city. City Missioner Matthew Mark said when completed, it would have a three-storey complex for transitional housing, accommodating 15 people. He said without transitional homes, the success rate for people staying in permanent housing was about 50 percent. "Over the last couple of years, we've been trialling some transitional housing through units that we've h...

Chris Lynch: Christchurch's synthetic drug scene is rife and destroying lives 15 Apr, 2021 05:50 PM 3 minutes to read It comes after a Coroner's report again warning of the dangers of synthetic drugs after the death of a Christchurch man. Photo / 123RF It comes after a Coroner's report again warning of the dangers of synthetic drugs after the death of a Christchurch man. Photo / 123RF NZ Herald OPINION: Christchurch's synthetic drug scene is thriving but it's killing people, ruining lives, destroying families, and creating a massive mental health crisis in the Garden City. Where is the suppor...