Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 24, 2020 3:33:28 GMT 12
TURN CHILD PROTECTION OVER TO MĀORI
The Children's Commissioner wants a "total transformation" of the country's system of care and protection for children - transferring resources and power from the state to appropriate Māori authorities.
"History has shown us that this task, so far, is beyond any state structure," writes the commissioner, Judge Andrew Becroft, in the second instalment of his two part-report into the care and removals of Māori babies.
While calls have been made before for a system "by Māori, for Māori" to end generations of injustice, he believes the Crown was not ready in the past to hear such proposals.
"I believe we are ready now. It will be unsettling and it will be challenging. Our statutory care and protection system is one place where the issues of colonisation, modern day racism and systemic bias clearly collide with te ao Māori.".....
www.newsroom.co.nz/inquiry-turn-child-protection-over-to-maori
The Children's Commissioner wants a "total transformation" of the country's system of care and protection for children - transferring resources and power from the state to appropriate Māori authorities.
"History has shown us that this task, so far, is beyond any state structure," writes the commissioner, Judge Andrew Becroft, in the second instalment of his two part-report into the care and removals of Māori babies.
While calls have been made before for a system "by Māori, for Māori" to end generations of injustice, he believes the Crown was not ready in the past to hear such proposals.
"I believe we are ready now. It will be unsettling and it will be challenging. Our statutory care and protection system is one place where the issues of colonisation, modern day racism and systemic bias clearly collide with te ao Māori.".....
www.newsroom.co.nz/inquiry-turn-child-protection-over-to-maori