Coinciding with the release of the Waitangi Tribunal report on the quality of service Māori offenders receive (reviewed above), the Police and Justice Ministers, Paula Bennett and Amy Adams respectively, have announced a new $10 million fund to improve Māori justice outcomes. The funding will be used to deliver programmes
Day: April 24, 2017
Earlier this month Superu (the Families Commission) published research on whānau wellbeing, derived from the 2013 Te Kupenga Survey undertaken by Statistics New Zealand. [By way of background Te Kupenga was a post-census survey of 5,000 Māori adults (aged 15 years and over), and measured Māori well-being, by focusing on
Earlier this month the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) released NCEA data tables for 2016.[1] This data shows NCEA participation and success rates, including via ethnicity, both nationally and at an individual school level. We advise this data is difficult to use, as it is just raw data worksheets without
Last month Youth Crime data was uploaded on the Statistics New Zealand website (and a companion factsheet was released by the Ministry of Justice). We have extracted the data as it relates to rangatahi Māori (aged 12 to 16 years) in the table below. As shown, offending and conviction rates
Last week the Waitangi Tribunal released its report on disproportionate Māori reoffending rates. The report is called Tū Mai Te Rangi![1] This circa 100 page report is the result of a Tribunal inquiry into a claim concerning the Crown’s (lack of) actions and policies to reduce Māori criminal reoffending