Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 24, 2016 17:53:41 GMT 12
VULNERABLE CHILDREN'S MINISTRY WANTS 1000 MORE FOSTER PARENTS
Last year only 30 per cent of the 3500 foster parents registered with Child, Youth and Family (CYF) were Māori, compared with 60 per cent of the 5000 children in state care.
Her new Ministry for Vulnerable Children Oranga Tamariki will eventually have a much wider, more preventive brief than CYF. An expert panel chaired by Dame Paula Rebstock recommended that it should take responsibility for about 230,000 children - a fifth of all children - who currently have contact with CYF at some stage in their first 18 years.
The panel said about 60 per cent of that group would be Māori - about 138,000, or 58 per cent of all Māori children....
www.nzherald.co.nz/maori/news/article.cfm?c_id=252&objectid=11733511
Last year only 30 per cent of the 3500 foster parents registered with Child, Youth and Family (CYF) were Māori, compared with 60 per cent of the 5000 children in state care.
Her new Ministry for Vulnerable Children Oranga Tamariki will eventually have a much wider, more preventive brief than CYF. An expert panel chaired by Dame Paula Rebstock recommended that it should take responsibility for about 230,000 children - a fifth of all children - who currently have contact with CYF at some stage in their first 18 years.
The panel said about 60 per cent of that group would be Māori - about 138,000, or 58 per cent of all Māori children....
www.nzherald.co.nz/maori/news/article.cfm?c_id=252&objectid=11733511