New Zealand: In its latest cut-and-paste child welfare report, New Zealand fails Maori again (Opinion)
Guardian – September 30, 2021
New Zealand has its own history of children being taken by the welfare system and incarcerated in welfare homes, which is now the subject of a royal commission. Whether these countries apologise or not – and unlike Australia and Canada, New Zealand hasn’t – it doesn’t seem to prevent them repeating the same mistakes ad infinitum. After several damning reports on New Zealand’s child protection system, including from the Waitangi Tribunal, the minister for children, Kelvin Davis, decided to commission another report to find out what was wrong.
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