Ian Hassall, New Zealand’s first Commissioner for Children, will be a key-note speaker at a Stockholm workshop next month (29 & 30 June), titled, ‘Comparative social and legal developments in dealing with corporal punishment of children’. The invitation comes exactly ten years since the passing of New Zealand’s ‘anti- smacking’... Keep Reading
Some criticism has come from Whangarei's Child Poverty Action Group on the the Child Poverty Monitor Technical Report from the Children's Commissioner, J R McKenzie Trust and University of Otago. The report found in 2013 about 260,000 children, or 24 per cent of children in New Zealand, were living in poverty. But Sherry Carne of the Action... Keep Reading
Children living in poverty is a serious issue in New Zealand. When children are raised in poverty it has alarming economic and social costs. It doesn't just affect the children involved. It affects the entire country.UNICEF NZ is a core member of the Every Child Counts coalition, which commissioned Infometrics to prepare two reports in 2011.... Keep Reading
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