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  • Tools to support healthy, consensual relationships for young people

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    A ‘primary prevention toolkit’ is being developed for communities, that focuses on healthy relationships for people of all ages.  The toolkit
  • Pilot Group Violence Programme for Young Men (Under 25)

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    This pilot programme is being delivered within the Special Treatment Unit at Rimutaka Prison 
  • A Bit Sus

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    With funding from the National Library, the School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA) has partnered with Tohatoha to deliver the ‘A Bit Sus’ campaign, which aims to build students resilience to misinformation an
  • COVID-19 response and Budget 2020 reflect ongoing commitment to child and youth wellbeing

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    The Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy framework remains a critical lens for the Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We've pulled together an overview of recent investments that support child wellbeing and poverty reduction, including…
  • Connecting kids to their local habitat

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    Over one hundred children from neighbouring schools in Waikato got together to help restore habitat near Lake Whangape, as part of the recent Conservation Week. Check out a range of hands-on, fun ways to get young people learning about and connecting to…
  • Investment in community-based youth justice facilities

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    From 1 July 2019, 17-year-olds were included in the youth justice system in most circumstances. Alongside this, there are planned changes to the way young people are detained in custody.
  • Early intervention support for families and whānau

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    Oranga Tamariki and the Child Wellbeing Unit (DPMC) are working together to support iwi and community to develop sustainable local approaches to early intervention.
  • Services for children experiencing family violence

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    Funding to enable direct purchase of services for children and young people who are experiencing family violence and are being identified through multi-agency community response sites (e.g.
  • Young Pasifika – Here to help!

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    Young Pasifika are playing a key part in helping to alleviate some of the impacts of the latest Covid-19 outbreak in their South Auckland community.
  • Early intervention: Te Kōhanga Reo – Learning Support Initiative and targeted COVID-19 response

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    This initiative enables the Ministry of Education to partner with Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust to co-design and co-deliver targeted strategies and support for the kōhanga whānau (kaiako, parents, whānau) to support tamariki with learning support needs
  • BOUNCE – Live Life Well

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    A youth-led project, developed by young people for young people, is helping young Cantabrians live life well every day.
  • Clowning around helps keep tamariki active and connected

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    A West Auckland primary school has taken a novel approach over lockdown to help keep its students healthy, active and connected.
  • Living by the moonlight: Maramataka

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    A group of West Auckland students are learning how Maramataka (the traditional Māori lunar cycle) can affect their emotions, mood, energy, mahi (work) and taiao (the environment).
  • Life-skills = work-ready skills

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    A series of short videos that highlight the wide range of life-skills young people acquire through everyday activities - in and out of school - that are relevant to the world of work.
  • Fake news and online safety

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    Teaching kids about what’s real and what’s not can be tricky, but it’s important they understand that just because something is online, doesn’t mean it’s true. Netsafe has new resources to tackle misinformation and help with other online challenges…
  • Trades and Apprenticeships Training Package

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    The Trades and Apprenticeships Training Package funded in Budget 2020 will provide opportunities for New Zealanders to receive trades training.  It invests in training and education for people who might have lost their jobs, or who want to move int
  • Creating a home away from home in public libraries

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    A commitment to manaakitanga and aroha, and a dedicated public kitchen, has helped transform the Takanini local library into a more whānau-friendly space.
  • Brain Development Collective Wānanga

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    In partnership with The Workshop, the Child Wellbeing Unit facilitated a two-day wānanga to deepen understanding of brain development and how to support it.
  • Kea Project

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    (previously titled High Impact Innovation Programme Initiatives in Corrections)
  • Tuia - Encounters 250

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    Budget 2018 boosted funding for the national commemoration marking 250 years since the first onshore meetings between Māori and Europeans.
  • Removal of National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) fees

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    Budget 2019 provided funding to cover the cost of NCEA assessment fees for all students. This supports equity of access to NCEA qualifications and increases residual incomes for low-income families.
  • Additional funding for schools to replace donations from parents/caregivers

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    Decile 1-7 state and state-integrated schools (attended by about 63 percent of all students, including 83 percent of Māori and Pacific students), are now eligible to receive $150 per student per year if the school agrees to stop requesting donations fro
  • Ka Ora, Ka Ako: free and healthy school lunch programme

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    A free and healthy school lunch programme was implemented from Term 1 2020, with a small number of schools.
  • Repeal Section 192 of the Social Security Act 2018

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    Government has removed the sanction under section 192 of the Social Security Act 2018 (previously S70A).  Previously, if a sole parent did not identify the other parent of the child and applies for Child Support they were subject to a benefit
  • Changes to abatement settings

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    From 1 April 2020, the amount that people on a main benefit can earn through employment before their benefit is reduced (known as abatement) has been increased, in line with planned increases in the minimum wage.
  • Index main benefits to wages

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    Benefit levels have declined as a proportion of average wages over time, meaning the gap between the living standards of beneficiaries and other New Zealanders has grown.
  • Sexual violence support services for children and young people

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    (This action was created from merging the Increased services for children and young people with concerning/harmful sexual behaviours and Sexual violence crisis support services for children and young people actions.)
  • Family violence prevention: increased investment

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    In Budget 2019 Government increased investment in broader family violence prevention activities, with additional funding allocated through the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund. 
  • Intensive (Whānau) Response - new model of intensive intervention for those at risk of entering care

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    Budget 2019 funding is supporting the collaborative design of new models of intensive intervention for families and whānau, so that tamariki can remain (wherever possible) safely at home with their whānau, within their culture, and connected to their co
  • Paiheretia te Muka Tāngata initiative: Whānau Ora support for Māori in the corrections system

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    Paiheretia te Muka Tāngata - Uniting the Threads of Whānau, is a kaupapa that draws on the strengths of the Whānau Ora approach to support young Māori (under 30 years old) who are in the Corrections system.
  • Initiatives to prevent and respond to bullying in schools

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    The Bullying Prevention and Response Work Programme for 2019-2022 has been developed and approved by the Bullying Prevention Advisory Group.
  • Government work programme to address racism and discrimination

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    A work programme is being developed to address racism and discrimination, including through policy and legislative processes; for example, by ensuring that the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi), and anti-racism and anti-discrimination considerat