Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 29, 2020 3:58:29 GMT 12
POWER TRANSFER FROM ORANGA TAMARIKI MUST BE RADICAL, WAITANGI TRIBUNAL TOLD
Researchers who are also former wards of the state have stressed the key changes needed to ensure any Māori-run alternative to Oranga Tamariki doesn't just turn a "white bureaucracy to a brown bureaucracy".
"Our whakapapa is embedded into the land of this country. It is that whakapapa that is being severed by the actions of the Crown.
"If there is to be a transfer of power, it has to be a transformative one to a process of facilitation that is sourced and built on kaupapa Māori values."......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/429344/power-transfer-from-oranga-tamariki-must-be-radical-waitangi-tribunal-told
SYSTEM OF CHILD PROTECTION IN NZ HAS FAILED MAORI: NZ MAORI COUNCIL
The Executive Director of the New Zealand Maori Council has called for wide ranging reform of the child care and protection system in Aotearoa as the final day of evidence is presented to the Waitangi Tribunal hearings into Oranga Tamariki. Matthew Tukaki, Executive Director, has said in order to break the circuit of intergenerational trauma the Government must act.......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2010/S00553/system-of-child-protection-in-nz-has-failed-maori-nz-maori-council.htm
Researchers who are also former wards of the state have stressed the key changes needed to ensure any Māori-run alternative to Oranga Tamariki doesn't just turn a "white bureaucracy to a brown bureaucracy".
"Our whakapapa is embedded into the land of this country. It is that whakapapa that is being severed by the actions of the Crown.
"If there is to be a transfer of power, it has to be a transformative one to a process of facilitation that is sourced and built on kaupapa Māori values."......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/429344/power-transfer-from-oranga-tamariki-must-be-radical-waitangi-tribunal-told
SYSTEM OF CHILD PROTECTION IN NZ HAS FAILED MAORI: NZ MAORI COUNCIL
The Executive Director of the New Zealand Maori Council has called for wide ranging reform of the child care and protection system in Aotearoa as the final day of evidence is presented to the Waitangi Tribunal hearings into Oranga Tamariki. Matthew Tukaki, Executive Director, has said in order to break the circuit of intergenerational trauma the Government must act.......
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2010/S00553/system-of-child-protection-in-nz-has-failed-maori-nz-maori-council.htm