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Education

E21 26 June 2020: Census data: Educational Qualifications

Last week Statistics New Zealand released data on qualification obtainment rates derived from the 2018 Census (or more precisely a tool for people to search that data). As we have come to expect from this Department, the data is not well packaged and reporting with conclusions is absent.  This means
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Oranga Tamariki

E21 26 June 2020: Report into State ‘Uplifts’ of Māori babies

This week we have reviewed a report from the Office of the Children’s Commissioner on the uplifting of pēpi Māori by Oranga Tamariki into state care. (I.e. removing children from their mothers within three months of birth.)  By way of background, the wider contextual background for this was a widely