The 'Sobering' Report on Māori Kids in the System: ‘My Dreams Will Come true...even if It Takes a While’

‘Falling short’: New oranga tamariki report finds ‘sobering’ outcomes for Māori in care

'I feel like my dreams will come true even if they take a while,' says one young Māori in state care.

New Report Confirms Oranga Tamariki Is Failing Tamariki And Government Is Failing Māori

We cannot continue to repeat history and pave the way for another Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. We cannot let the Government give up on our most vulnerable kids by repeating cycles that have been continuing for generations.

The 'sobering' report on Māori kids in the system: ‘My dreams will come true...even if it takes a while’

WARNING: This article discusses suicide and may be upsetting to some readers. Māori adults who were in the oranga tamariki system as kids are more likely...

Oranga Tamariki report finds stark outcomes for Māori in state care system

The Independent Children's Monitor has found Māori children overrepresented in Oranga Tamariki's systems, with outcomes as they grow up painting a "paint a stark picture".

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MANA- ROTORUA LAKES COUNCIL’S CALLOUS ATTACK ON HOMELESS WHĀNAU – Maori Party

Te Pāti Māori Co-leader and MP for Waiariki, Rawiri Waititi, has slammed the Rotorua Lakes Council’s treatment of homeless whānau as “inhumane and disgraceful,” following the forced police removal of people sleeping outside the Salvation Army on Amohia Street yesterday. “Our most vulnerable whānau were woken by police, trespassed like criminals, and had their belongings tipped out, broken, or hauled away like trash. Some were arrested, not for c…