You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming Post-budget Breakfast Child Poverty Event, in Wellington on May 19. 

 The post-budget breakfast analysis will unpack the impact of Budget 2023 on child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand.

 The event is being hosted by the Public Health Association of New Zealand (PHANZ) Wellington branch, together with Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and Social Justice Group of St Peter’s on Willis, Te Aro, Wellington.

 All are welcome to attend in person or online.

 Location: St Peter’s on Willis, 211 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington (Corner Willis and Ghuznee Streets)

 Doors open 6.30am for the public, where a light breakfast and drinks will be served, and the event to start at 7.30am (including online). The event will conclude at 9am.

 To watch the live stream on the day please visit CPAG's Facebook page.

 Speakers at this event include CPAG convener Alan Johnson, Murray Edridge (Wellington City Missioner), Jonathan Boston (Victoria University), Charles Waldegrave (Family Centre), Louise Delany (Tax Justice Aotearoa), a ministerial-level representative, and Josie Pagani as the MC for the morning. 

 You can keep up to date with this event by registering your interest here.

 We hope you can join us for this important discussion. 

Child Poverty Action Group Dunedin hosted journalist, author and academic Max Rashbrooke on Tuesday 6 July, 2021. Max is a New-Zealand-based writer with interests in economic inequality and democratic participation. He provided his analysis of the Government's policy settings are delivering for children.

Each year the Child Poverty Action Group provides an analysis of the Government's budget, looking at key areas including health, housing, education and income support and the impact of budget allocations on alleviating child poverty in New Zealand.  

READ OUR ANALYSIS OF BUDGET 2021

Wellington speakers: Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Health, Professor Girol Karacaoglu Head of School Of Government Victoria University of Wellington, Judge Andrew Becroft Children's Commissioner, Professor Michael Baker MNZM Department of Public Health University of Otago
Dr Yvonne Anderson, Paediatrician, Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, University of Auckland, MC - Professor Nikki Turner Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre

Auckland speakers: Dr Danny de Lore, Paediatrician, Lakes DHB, Royal Australasian College of Practitioners Indigenous Child Health Working Group, Chair, Janet McAllister, Child Poverty Action Group, Bernie Smith, CEO, Monte Cecilia Housing Trust, MC - Associate Professor Khylee Quince

Watch the recording here. 

Christchurch speakers: MC Dame Sue Bagshaw, Professor Paul Dalziel - Professor of Economics
Professor Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury - Sustainability and Children’s flourishing in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Gina-Lee Duncan – Kōanga Kai and Whānau Ora, Ihorangi Reweti-Peters - Dreams for young people’s care and support in Aotearoa.

Nelson: This year, CPAG Nelson Tasman will stream the CPAG and Public Health Association’s Wellington event, with final commentary from Lisa Lawrence, Kaiwhakahaere, Motueka Family Service Centre. (See speaker list above)

Tauranga speakers: Alan Johnson, Child Poverty Action Group Management Committee, Janet McAllister, Child Poverty Action Group Researcher, Tommy Wilson, Te Tuinga Whanau

CPAG enjoyed a productive 2019/20 year, which included a successful collaboration with ActionStation enabling CPAG research and messages to reach a much wider audience.

To mark the conclusion of this successful year, we held our AGM, along with a political panel discussion on the topic of child poverty. 

We had the pleasure of hosting our members from Labour, Greens, NZ First, TOP and the Māori Party, along with our supporters once again for CPAG's Annual General Meeting on 29th July 2020. The AGM was held at Saint Columba Centre. We reflected on CPAG‘s achievements and outputs for the year, as well as hearing from each of the political parties in attendance about how they will address child poverty in the new government term. 

As ever we are grateful to Auckland City Mission for hosting CPAG in their offices and for the sharing of common concerns and values which we value highly. 

Considerable change in the CPAG workforce has been seen over the past year with resignation of Celia (Hayes) Thompson after several years of conscientious service and the appointment of Georgie Craw as Executive Officer who has promoted valuable changes in the way CPAG works. Early in 2020 Jeni Cartwright resigned to train as a teacher after 3 years as CPAG’s highly effective Communications Officer. Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns was appointed to a joint research position with CPAG and the Auckland City Mission and Janet McAllister has continued her sterling contracted research. CPAG’s research and commentary outputs during 2019/20 remained as credible, relevant and as appreciated as ever.