T4K member Child Poverty Action Group are getting political at their AGM this year! It's 85 days until the General Election so the Child Poverty Action Group is thrilled to invite everyone to their first event of the political season. As part of their AGM on Thursday July 27 in Tāmaki Makaurau CPAG will be holding a political panel with all... Keep Reading
We collated policy measures from our Tick 4 Kids coalition partners and chose the most popular five to test our party candidates on. The following simplified scorecards cover education based policy, family violence, health, housing and income measures. The results are as follows: Keep Reading
Data tells us that for too many people there is no bounce back when they find themselves impoverished, in NZ. Child poverty is a more serious issue in this country as it is suggested that what experienced in the first three years would be the foundation of one's later life. No matter it is real or not, any period of poverty for child is too... Keep Reading
NZ has found to be the wealthy country with the highest adolescent suicide rate, as reported by the latest Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries. Almost one in five (19.8%) children in New Zealand are living in relative income poverty, and that the nation has the sixth-highest teen birth rate.... Keep Reading
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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