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OCC State of Care Annual Report
June 30, 2016 at 3:08 PM
OCC State of Care Annual Report
The Office of the Children's Commissioner have released the latest State of Care report. This report is an annual summary from our independent monitoring of Child, Youth and Family’s policies, practices and services. It includes feedback from children and young people about their experiences in the system.
About the report
The 2016 report is focused on what it means to be child-centred. We hope that it provides some clarity about what it means to work in child-centred ways. The report offers some practical suggestions for how CYF can start to be more consistently child-centred now, even in the context of the major up-coming reforms.
What we learnt from our monitoring - summary
In 2015-16, we found that while CYF has many child-centred policies and strategies in place, they are not consistent in practice.
We did find some examples of positive practice and strengths that can be drawn on. Residences are moving in the right direction, although from different starting points – an encouraging improvement since our last State of Care report from 2015. Reassuringly, most of the children and young people we engaged with were happy with their current care arrangements.
Nevertheless, the overall picture across our findings is one of considerable variability in the quality of CYF’s services for children and young people. CYF is not sufficiently child-centred, and the result is a system that often does not serve children and young people well.
- CYF’s case management is not sufficiently child-centred
- CYF residences are moving in the right direction, from very different starting points
- Children and young people want to belong, be listened to, and be supported by social workers
Recommendations
- Recommendation 1: Plan to reduce the risk to children and young people of a dip in performance during the transition period
- Recommendation 2: Develop a clear understanding of child-centred practice in the particular cultural and organisational context of the New Zealand care and protection and youth justice systems.
- Recommendation 3: Empower and support staff now to strengthen their child-centred practice
Voices of children
As part of our monitoring we talk to children and young people in the care system about their experiences. The State of Care 2016 report reflects the views, opinions and concerns of these young people.
More information is available in part 2 of the report.