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Day: October 30, 2020
Title: Children With Offending Behaviour: Supporting Children, 10-13 Year Olds, Who Seriously Offend And Are Referred Under S14(1) e of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. Publisher & Date: Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC): August 2020 Type of Document: Evaluative Report Length, style 36 pages, plain English Recommended readership:
The third item we reviewed is a report from the ‘Independent Children’s Monitor’ (‘the Monitor’) regarding the care of children in state care, for the second half of 2019. (By way of background, this is a new entity, essentially established to check on Oranga Tamariki and its contracted care providers.
Last, the Ministry of Justice has also released a short report on children and youth offending. We found this to be a good report, with clear data tables attached for further analysis. However it sadly shows Māori comprise 62% of all youth with criminal charges laid against them – which