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Election 2020: Political party policies and family and whānau violence
Tiaki Tamariki Whakamana Whānau Regional Workshops – November 2020
Evaluation of the Information Sharing Provisions in the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989
Tāne Talks: Ngā piki me ngā heke kei waenganui o te whānau - Webinar
NZCCSS: Kete Kupu
Integrating housing support for vulnerable families - Webinar
PreventX Online - DVRCV Conference 2020
Weekly Media Roundup
NZFVC seeks new Manager
Child Matters Workshop: Identifying and Responding to Vulnerability and Child Abuse
Family violence and sexual violence service provider update - MSD, Sept 2020
The Impact of COVID on our Community Agencies
Child Poverty Action Group 2020 Election Policy Scorecard
SociaLink: Main party policies of relevance to the social and community sector
VOYCE - 6 promises for 6000 (children in the state care system)
New Relationships and Sexuality Education guidelines
Government consulting on forced labour, people trafficking and slavery
Keeping perpetrators 'in view' during COVID restrictions
Weekly Media Roundup
Workshop: Good information sharing for child wellbeing
Webinar: Supporting children and young people during COVID-19 and beyond
Early help for whānau who need extra support
Porn and young people in Aotearoa - Webinar
Auckland District Health Board Annual Family Violence Study Day
Community Research
June 08, 2018 at 11:22 AM
Grandparents raising grandchildren in New Zealand are entitled to the unsupported child benefit (UCB) if they meet the conditions for eligibility. To access the support, they are required to attend the offices of Work and Income. In a large survey of such grandparents undertaken in 2016 (funded by a Lotteries Community Sector Research Fund grant) participants articulated a wide range of qualitative comments around their experiences in accessing this important form of income support. While a proportion had positive experiences, most were critical of the operation of the offices. Between the policy of providing financial support for children unable to live with their own parents, and the practice of being a grandparent looking after such children, lies a complex set of systems of which grandparents were often extremely critical, for a range of reasons which are explored in this paper.
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