Title: Social Housing Register and Transfer Register: September 2019 Publisher & Date: The Ministry of Social Development: November 2019 Type of Document: Data set Length, style: Excel worksheets; statistical data Recommended readership: Social sector subscribers, data analysts Content summary: The data provides a summary of applicants seeking public housing assistance
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Iwi Annual Reports This week we have commenced reviews of iwi annual reports. (Many iwi have an end of financial year balance date of 30 June, with their annual general meetings (AGMs) held in November.) The reports we have reviewed this week are for the two largest iwi groupings, Ngāpuhi
The Health Research Council has published the recipients of the 2020 Māori Health Career Development Awards and the Māori Health Research Summer Studentship. We have listed these people below. 2020 Māori Health Career Development Awards Dr Aria Graham Māmā e Mamia – piloting a marae-based wellbeing model for
Hone Sadler has reportedly stood down as the chair of Tūhoronuku. (Tūhoronuku is the Treaty settlement trust of Ngāpuhi; which the present Minister, Andrew Little, has indicated does not have a clear mandate to proceed with settlement processes in its current form). The resignation is said to have occurred
Title: Te Arawhiti: Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2019 Publisher & Date: Ministry of Justice: October 2019 (Note Te Arawhiti is a departmental agency located within the Ministry of Justice. Hence although it works independently with its own Chief Executive, its reporting to Parliament is through the
Title: Pūrongo-ā-tau | Annual Report for the year ending 30 June 2019 Publisher & Date: Te Puni Kōkiri, (TPK) September 2019 Type of Document: Report back on services Length, style 150 pages. Plain English, numerous case studies Recommended readership: Māori Affairs Select Committee Members Content summary The purpose of this
Te Puni Kōkiri Annual Report to 30 June 2019 “Te Puni Kōkiri rarely operates in only one domain, with our approach leveraging effort across two or all three, producing a complementary suite of mahi”. (Te Puni Kōkiri Annual Report 2019:8) Domains being ‘leading’ which is “working to modify systems and
Mere Mangu has publicly advised that she considers she is now the lawful Chairperson of Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi O Ngāpuhi, following the resignation of Mr Sonny Tau. (Ms Mangu had been deputy and considers the rūnanga’s constitution stipulates the Deputy becomes Chair, if the Chair resigns.) She has indicated she expects
On Thursday the Te Pire Haeata ki Parihaka / The Parihaka Reconciliation Bill passed its third reading in Parliament and will now be passed into law upon receiving Royal Assent. This incoming law follows the December 2018 Crown apology for historic crimes and injustices committed at Parihaka, such as the
Aside from ensuring Māori involved in delivering services for Oranga Tamariki are appropriately supported and their concerns are not minimised or disregarded, services need to support and improve the wellbeing of children in the care of Oranga Tamariki. Subscribers may recall last week we noted a report from the Children’s
This week we have reviewed two items from Oranga Tamariki. The first is excellent research – a well-constructed and clearly presented survey of adult attitudes towards vulnerable children. We note its results affirm that, overall, Māori and non-Māori see matters concerning tamariki at risk a little differently. Māori respondents placed
We reviewed a Cabinet paper on progressing Whānau Ora (the paper is dated June 2019 but released now by Te Puni Kōkiri). This is an important policy area for Māori, as it is essentially an attempt to apply Māori frameworks of wellbeing within public sector social services areas.[1] By way of
We reviewed the latest Benefit Factsheets from the Ministry of Social Development. What is most noteworthy is that, like last quarter, beneficiary numbers continue to rise sharply, with close to 110,000 Māori (and their whānau) being welfare reliant, as at 30 September 2019. That compares with circa 103,000 tangata Māori
Last week the Office of the Children’s Commissioner released a report based on the comments of 52 children living in secure care and protection residences which are run by Oranga Tamariki and Barnardos. The report is called, ‘A Hard Place To Be Happy’. This is not a specifically Māori-focused report,
In Pānui 24/2019 we advised on the Waitangi Tribunal’s first stage report regarding the health sector (WAI 2575). (We found it to be a good report, in effectively identifying issues of concern and demonstrating health inequalities. However, we noted it avoided the question of how much responsibility sits with the