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22 Dec 2006
CPAG joins community organisations calling for decisive action to address long-standing inequalities in the way schools are resourced, following the release of two government reports this week.
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30 Nov 2006
CPAG has welcomed yesterdayâs decision by the Crown not to appeal recent High Court findings in CPAG's favour. Director Janfrie Wakim notes all parties have now affirmed the right of non-government organizations to bring legal action on behalf of victims of discrimination.
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7 Nov 2006
Child Poverty Action Group has welcomed yesterdayâs judicial review decision by the High Court allowing the group to act on behalf of children affected by discriminatory government policies. The CPAG case claims that the In-Work Payment, part of the government's Working for Families package, discriminates against approximately 230,000 children who do not qualify for it because of their parents' work status.
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6 Nov 2006
Today's judicial review judgement from the High Court will allow CPAG's family assistance discrimination case to proceed to the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
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27 Oct 2006
Dr Lorna Dyall chair of the Health Advocates Trust reported that its application for a full judicial review was supported in the Auckland High Court this week and urgent fixture given to be heard at the end of November.
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26 Oct 2006
CPAG is concerned that proposed changes to the treatment of beneficiaries appear to have overlooked the needs of children in a drive to push parents into the workforce. "Secure, adequate family income â not parental employment - is the first important requirement of child wellbeing,â says economics spokesperson Dr Susan St John.
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23 Oct 2006
City of Manukau Education Trust recently launched two reports on the effectiveness of its new intergenerational family learning in helping families beat the poverty cycle. Read their press release here.
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23 Oct 2006
Child Poverty Action Group applauds a new literacy programme which new evidence shows boosts the life chances of both low-income children and their parents.
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18 Oct 2006
"Weâre not asking for much," Oscar Kightley told a rally organised by the Clean Start campaign supporting low-paid cleaners. "Weâre only asking for enough to feed our families and have decent lives."
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14 Oct 2006
A Judicial Review of the right for CPAG to act on behalf of poor New Zealand Children (Attorney-General v The Human Rights Review Tribunal and Child Poverty Action Group Inc) is to be held in the High Court Wellington on Monday 16 October at 10am.
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10 Oct 2006
CPAG Economics spokesperson Dr Susan St John spoke this week in Wellington about CPAG's legal case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. "Policy must provide for adequate child-related payments to support low family incomes, as an essential part of ensuring that all children have a decent and fair start in life," Dr St John says.
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28 Sep 2006
"There is no excuse for child poverty in New Zealand. Our economy is clearly strong enough to provide ongoing investment in children. Save the Children encourages Government, organisations and businesses to put their hands up and play a part in eliminating poverty here at home," Executive Director John Bowis says.
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26 Jul 2006
Prof Innes Asher outlined CPAG's way ahead for action on child poverty in terms of poverty measurement, income measures, health, housing and education, when she addressed an Every Chld Counts forum in Wellington.
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11 Jul 2006
Research released today by the Ministry of Social Development shows that despite the economic boom, the living standards of New Zealandâs poorest children are slipping dangerously, says Child Poverty Action Group.
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20 May 2006
ASB Chief Economist Anthony Byett told CPAG's Post-Budget Breakfast that the government's current approach leaves roughly 175 000 children in a parlous state.
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18 May 2006
Our children are the heart of our nationâs future: if we are to prosper we must leave none of them behind. Will this guiding principle, quoted so often, be reflected in Budget â06?
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26 Apr 2006
Prof. Jane Kelsey says Susan St John is right: Working for Families is fundamentally flawed in the way the In Work Payment fails our poorest children.
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20 Apr 2006
A new Asthma Foundation report places urgent action against child poverty at the top of its list of recommendations. CPAG Health spokesperson Dr Nikki Turner says "If poor children continue to be allowed to get relatively poorer we can expect their health to deteriorate further."
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9 Apr 2006
Rather than reversing existing disadvantage, the burden of discrimination built in to the new In Work Payment (IWP) will fall particularly hard on Maori and Pasifika families, says Donna Wynd in a new CPAG background paper.
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1 Apr 2006
Today's introduction of the In Work Payment (IWP) as part of the government's Working for Families package is really important recognition of the need to invest in future generations, says Child Poverty Action Group finance spokesperson Dr Susan St John. However 230,000 children in benefit families will not receive any extra assistance today. "Child poverty can only deepen for those in families left out," she says.
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31 Mar 2006
Wellington People's Centre has released a report today which says April 1st's axing of Special Benefit will "further impoverish New Zealand's poorest families." It features case studies detailing how this and other changes under Working for Families will affect family incomes.
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30 Mar 2006
Deb is making the best of a bad situation, as she struggles daily to feed and clothe her four growing boys. Yet she will get nothing more from the Working for Families package. She says "This society needs to look after all its children, not just those of paid working parents. It cannot afford to waste the resource that our children can be."
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30 Mar 2006
CPAG Economics spokesperson Dr Susan St John says new money for struggling families is great news but ongoing policy neglect of the poorest means their situation is only worsening.
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24 Mar 2006
Child health outcomes in New Zealand are poor, due in part to policy neglect, Professor Innes Asher of the University of Auckand's Paediatrics Department told the Hospital Play Association of Aotearoa/NZ. (Slides available at http://www.cpag.org.nz/resources/speeches/ )
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6 Mar 2006
Read our key recommendations to government for 2006, ahead of the annual Budget.
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10 Feb 2006
Child Poverty Action Group NZ supports a creative new campaign against poverty wages and insecure work hours, which is being funded by fast food workers and run by www.supersizemypay.com
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21 Jan 2006
John Armstrong writes this week that, for the government, if beneficiaries "missed out on entitlements under the Working for Families package. No matter. It was big picture stuff."
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12 Jan 2006
The Public Health Association says it is not acceptable that children in our 'wealthy' first-world country are suffering from third-world diseases.
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6 Jan 2006
One of the grimmest stories to be told last month came from Auckland City Missioner Diane Robertson, The Dominion Post writes in an editorial.
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