Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 11, 2017 17:26:11 GMT 12
FORUM TO DISCUSS DIVERSITY, BIAS AND NEW CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
As lead keynote speaker at Oranui’s Indigenous Diversity Forum on 5 May at Te Papa, Mr Blank will open the day by explaining why the Ministry for Vulnerable Children makes no sense from a social policy perspective.
“The Ministry is a poorly planned response to New Zealand’s very high rates of child abuse,” he recently told TV3’s The Project. “Over 70% of young people in the Ministry’s youth justice residences are Māori. This is hugely disproportionate and evidence of unconscious bias in the system.”...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1704/S00113/forum-to-discuss-diversity-bias-and-new-childrens-ministry.htm
As lead keynote speaker at Oranui’s Indigenous Diversity Forum on 5 May at Te Papa, Mr Blank will open the day by explaining why the Ministry for Vulnerable Children makes no sense from a social policy perspective.
“The Ministry is a poorly planned response to New Zealand’s very high rates of child abuse,” he recently told TV3’s The Project. “Over 70% of young people in the Ministry’s youth justice residences are Māori. This is hugely disproportionate and evidence of unconscious bias in the system.”...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1704/S00113/forum-to-discuss-diversity-bias-and-new-childrens-ministry.htm