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One-third of children placed in state care have ended up serving a prison sentence, according to research tabled before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care today. ....
Waitangi Tribunal claimants who have been through the state care system say they have been shut out of Oranga Tamariki reform talks, but their concerns are being labelled a distraction by the ministerial advisory group chair. Dr Alison Green is a former state ward and is completing her post-doctoral research at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Photo: RNZ / Patrice Allen The Waitangi Tribunal recommended earlier this year that an independent Māori authority be set up to prevent tamariki Māori going into state care, but the idea has been parked while a Ministerial Advisory Board, chaired by Matthew Tūkaki, conducts its own investigation into Oranga Tamariki. ....
Thomas Manch15:17, Apr 30 2021 Te Ao First annual report shows Oranga Tamariki working more closely with Māori. Published August 11, 2020. The Waitangi Tribunal has called on the Government to step back from intruding into Māori communities, ruling the care of Māori children by Oranga Tamariki has breached the Treaty of Waitangi. The tribunal, which released its report after a two-year inquiry into Oranga Tamariki uplifts on Friday, has said an independent Māori Transition Authority should be created to reform the agency’s care and protection system for tamariki Māori. “Māori must be given the right to chart their own path towards realisation in contemporary times of the Treaty promise of rangatiratanga over their kāinga,” the tribunal said in its decision. ....
Lawrence Smith/Stuff A lawyer representing whanau who have had dealings with Oranga Tamariki has said the government department should be replaced with a Maori authority focussing on prevention. There is no other way to stop tamariki Māori being disproportionately taken into state care than to disestablish Oranga Tamariki, the Waitangi Tribunal has been told during closing submissions for the urgent inquiry into the child protection agency. The inquiry started in July last year after Oranga Tamariki came under fire for the systemic removal of tamariki and pēpi Māori. The purpose of the hearing has been to find out why there has been such a consistent disparity of tamariki Māori being removed from their families, whether legislative and practice changes had made any difference, and what further changes to legislation might be required to secure outcomes that uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi. ....