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        • Outcome: Loved, safe and nurtured
        • Outcome: Have what they need
        • Outcome: Happy and healthy
        • Outcome: Learning and developing
        • Outcome: Accepted, respected and connected
        • Outcome: Involved and empowered
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      • Actions for 'Learning and developing'
      • Actions for 'Accepted, respected and connected'
      • Actions for 'Involved and empowered'
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      • Feeling loved
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      • Serious injuries
      • Harm against children
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      • Child poverty
      • Food insecurity
      • Housing quality
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      • Mental wellbeing
      • Self-harm and suicide
      • Participation in early learning
      • Regular school attendance
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  • Our aspirations
    • Context
      • Child poverty reduction and wellbeing legislation
      • Opportunity and challenges
      • New Zealand's children and young people
      • Reducing Child Poverty
      • Introduction to the Strategy
    • The Strategy framework
      • Outcomes
      • Guiding principles
    • Strategy development
    • Review of the Strategy
  • Actions
    • Actions per outcome
      • Actions for 'Loved, safe and nurtured'
      • Actions for 'Have what they need'
      • Actions for 'Happy and healthy'
      • Actions for 'Learning and developing'
      • Actions for 'Accepted, respected and connected'
      • Actions for 'Involved and empowered'
    • Explore actions
  • Measuring success
    • Indicators
      • Feeling loved
      • Feeling safe
      • Family/whānau wellbeing
      • Serious injuries
      • Harm against children
      • Quality time with parents
      • Material wellbeing
      • Child poverty
      • Food insecurity
      • Housing quality
      • Housing affordability
      • Prenatal wellbeing
      • Subjective health status
      • Potentially avoidable hospitalisations
      • Mental wellbeing
      • Self-harm and suicide
      • Participation in early learning
      • Regular school attendance
      • Literacy, numeracy, and science skills
      • Social-emotional skills
      • Self-management skills
      • Youth participation in employment, education, or training
      • Ability to “be themselves”
      • Sense of belonging
      • Experience of discrimination
      • Experience of bullying
      • Social support
      • Support for cultural identity
      • Languages
      • Involvement in community
      • Representation of young people's voices
      • Making positive choices
      • Criminal offending
    • Reporting
  • Community
    • Your stories
    • How to get involved
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  • Engagement
    • What we heard
    • Children and young people's voices
    • Engagement reports and research index
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— Our Vision —

New Zealand, Aotearoa is the best place in
the world for children
& young people

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See the new collection of engagement reports featuring child and youth insights and perspectives across a range of wellbeing areas.

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    Our aspirations

  • Boy with guitar

    Strategy framework

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    Outcomes

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    Reducing child poverty

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    Actions

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Your stories

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The Strategy is just the start of the conversation. We want to keep hearing from you - your stories, views and ideas.

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    19 Sep 2023
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  • Upcoming webinar: Do we need more than Maslow’s hierarchy to advance tamariki and rangatahi wellbeing?

    15 Sep 2023
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    21 Aug 2023
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