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Family Action: Take Action Campaign
Strengthening Step Families Programme
Transitions: Understanding Children & Young People at Key Life Moments
Training: Making Relationships Work
AWC: Clementine Ford, Mana Wahine Review, New Classes
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Workshop: Sex Ed By Porn?
Postgraduate courses in Infant, Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Family violence legislation passes
Funding improvements for family violence services
Consultation open on Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy
Workshop: Working with clients from a refugee background
Special Newsletter from the Office of the Children's Commissioner
Submissions open on Equal Pay Amendment Bill
Reading list on family justice system, Family Court
Criminal Justice Advisory Group public meetings; related research and reports
Seminar: Adolescent Brain Development - Myths and Insights
Brainwave Review 28 Spring 2018
Consultation: Developing an Ethnic Domestic Violence Response Framework
Child Poverty and Income inequities
December 12, 2013 at 11:48 AM
As we head into the Christmas season of gifting and sharing, we are reminded of the income disparities and resulting poverty that impact heavily on our children. The Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty Report you can download here.
This resonates with UNICEF Child Poverty Monitor report, it released this week and you can read that press release here.
We ponder over how best we can invest in children, what steps can we take to narrow the income gaps, and how to continue collective impact of collaborative strategies in housing and health work.
Income adequacy and problem debts are real and live issues for New Zealand families. Let us challenge Government to deliver on these recommendations, and be true to its promises to our children in NEw Zealand.
Read more on this news item here
