Publications

Child Poverty Action Group publishes reports on topics relating to the wellbeing of children. These can be downloaded here at no charge.

Phil Houghton 01/12/2021 Phil Houghton 01/12/2021

Children Can't Live On Promises: A 2021 Stocktake of Implementation of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group's 2019 Recommendations

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Phil Houghton 01/08/2021 Phil Houghton 01/08/2021

Submission: Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into the Drivers of Persistent Disadvantage - Terms of Reference

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2021 Phil Houghton 01/06/2021

Reducing Child Poverty in Aotearoa: Are we there yet?

Reducing child poverty in Aotearoa are we there yet - Recording

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Phil Houghton 17/11/2020 Phil Houghton 17/11/2020

What Happened to ‘Welfare Overhaul’? A Stocktake of Implementation of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group’s 2019 Recommendations

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2020 Phil Houghton 01/10/2020

Income Support in the Wake of COVID-19: Survey

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2020 Phil Houghton 01/09/2020

‘Living well’? Children with disability need far greater income support in Aotearoa

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Phil Houghton 01/07/2020 Phil Houghton 01/07/2020

Our policy priorities to reduce child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand: Income Support

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Phil Houghton 01/01/2020 Phil Houghton 01/01/2020

Submission on the Budget Policy Statement 2020

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Phil Houghton 01/11/2019 Phil Houghton 01/11/2019

Proceedings Summit 2019: Whakamana Tāngata: Where to from here?

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2019 Phil Houghton 01/09/2019

The experts can all agree: Whakamana Tāngata response from Child Poverty Action Group

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Phil Houghton 01/08/2019 Phil Houghton 01/08/2019

What the Government needs to do now to lift children out of poverty

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Phil Houghton 01/07/2019 Phil Houghton 01/07/2019

‘Relationship status’ and the Welfare System in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Phil Houghton 01/11/2018 Phil Houghton 01/11/2018

What will it take to have a Welfare System fit for families in the 21st century?

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Phil Houghton 01/11/2018 Phil Houghton 01/11/2018

Welfare for Wellbeing

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Phil Houghton 01/05/2018 Phil Houghton 01/05/2018

Budget 2018 Presentation - Katie O'Donnell

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Phil Houghton 01/01/2018 Phil Houghton 01/01/2018

Submission on the Budget Policy Statement 2018

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2017 Phil Houghton 01/10/2017

A New Zealand where all Children can flourish: Briefing paper to the incoming government

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2017 Phil Houghton 01/09/2017

Proceedings Summit 2017: Beyond Social Investment

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2017 Phil Houghton 01/06/2017

A New Zealand where all Children can flourish: Priorities for family income support

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2017 Phil Houghton 01/06/2017

A New Zealand where all Children can flourish: Priorities for 'Social investment'

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Phil Houghton 01/02/2017 Phil Houghton 01/02/2017

Children and the Living Wage

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Phil Houghton 01/01/2017 Phil Houghton 01/01/2017

Submission on the Budget Policy Statement 2017

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Phil Houghton 01/11/2016 Phil Houghton 01/11/2016

Barriers to support: Uptake of the Child Disability Allowance in Otara

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2016 Phil Houghton 01/10/2016

Proceedings: Social Security Summit – Investing in Children

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2016 Phil Houghton 01/06/2016

Thoughts on Budget 2016

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2016 Phil Houghton 01/06/2016

Submission on the Social Security Legislation Rewrite Bill

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Phil Houghton 01/02/2016 Phil Houghton 01/02/2016

A policy of cynical neglect: The slow demise of the Accommodation Supplement

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2015 Phil Houghton 01/10/2015

Welfare fit for families: Summit Proceedings

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Phil Houghton 01/08/2015 Phil Houghton 01/08/2015

Reflections on the Budget 2015 Child Hardship Package

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2015 Phil Houghton 01/06/2015

Submission on the Support for Children in Hardship Bill

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2015 Phil Houghton 01/06/2015

Budget 2015: Associate Professor Susan St John and Alan Johnson

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Phil Houghton 01/03/2015 Phil Houghton 01/03/2015

‘It shouldn’t be this hard’: Children, poverty and disability

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Phil Houghton 01/12/2014 Phil Houghton 01/12/2014

Guest Speaker Presentations: Launch of 'The complexities of 'relationship' in the Welfare System and the consequences for Children'

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2014 Phil Houghton 01/10/2014

Community Speaker Comments: Our Children Our Choice: Priorities for Policy Wellington Launch: Presentation by Geoff Curson

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2014 Phil Houghton 01/10/2014

Our Children Our Choice: Priorities for Policy Auckland Launch: Speech by Associate Professor Susan St John

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2014 Phil Houghton 01/10/2014

Our Children, our choice: priorities for policy

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2014 Phil Houghton 01/09/2014

Benefit sanctions: Creating an invisible underclass of Children?

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2014 Phil Houghton 01/09/2014

Benefit sanctions: Children Not Seen - Not Heard

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2014 Phil Houghton 01/09/2014

Benefit Sanctions and Children: An Urgent Need for Greater Clarity

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Phil Houghton 01/03/2014 Phil Houghton 01/03/2014

Child Poverty Action Group v Attorney General - what did we gain?

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2013 Phil Houghton 01/09/2013

Māori, Social security and Whānau Ora: 75 Years of Ambivalence: 75th Anniversary of the Social Security Act 1938

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Phil Houghton 01/05/2013 Phil Houghton 01/05/2013

Preventing, Mitigating or Solving Child Income Poverty? The Expert Advisory Group 2012 report

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Phil Houghton 01/05/2013 Phil Houghton 01/05/2013

Budget 2013: Is that all there is?

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Phil Houghton 01/04/2013 Phil Houghton 01/04/2013

Myths and Facts: Sole Parents and the DPB

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Phil Houghton 01/02/2013 Phil Houghton 01/02/2013

The December 2012 Household Labour Force Survey: Comment

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2012 Phil Houghton 01/10/2012

Office of the Commissioner for Children’s Expert Advisory Group’ Solutions to Child Poverty

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2012 Phil Houghton 01/06/2012

Dopey or what?

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2012 Phil Houghton 01/06/2012

Submission: Social Security (Benefit Categories and Work Focus) Amendment Bill

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2011 Phil Houghton 01/09/2011

Left further behind: how policies fail the poorest Children in New Zealand

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2011 Phil Houghton 01/06/2011

Punitive policies punishing families

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2011 Phil Houghton 01/06/2011

Parents or workers?

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2011 Phil Houghton 01/06/2011

The parallel universe of the Welfare Working Group

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Phil Houghton 01/11/2010 Phil Houghton 01/11/2010

Improving our poor Child Health outcomes

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2010 Phil Houghton 01/09/2010

Rethinking welfare for the 21st century: Forum Proceedings

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Phil Houghton 01/07/2010 Phil Houghton 01/07/2010

What work counts? Work incentives and sole parent families

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2010 Phil Houghton 01/06/2010

Manukau City Council (Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places) Bill

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2010 Phil Houghton 01/06/2010

The Social Assistance (Future Focus) Bill

Future Focus aims to make it more difficult to get and remain on a Sickness or Invalids Benefit, and re-introduces work testing for sole parents whose eldest child is aged six or more.

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2010 Phil Houghton 01/06/2010

Submission: Long-term benefit dependency issues paper

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2010 Phil Houghton 01/06/2010

Submission: Long-term benefit dependency options paper

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Phil Houghton 01/02/2010 Phil Houghton 01/02/2010

Commentary on the Prime Minister’s 2010 February Statement

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Phil Houghton 01/12/2009 Phil Houghton 01/12/2009

Escaping the Welfare Mess?

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Phil Houghton 01/12/2008 Phil Houghton 01/12/2008

Briefing to the Incoming Government, December 2008

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Phil Houghton 01/04/2008 Phil Houghton 01/04/2008

Left behind: how Social & income inequalities damage New Zealand Children

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Phil Houghton 01/06/2007 Phil Houghton 01/06/2007

John Key: The real Kiwi Way, or the 1990s in drag?

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Phil Houghton 01/02/2007 Phil Houghton 01/02/2007

Social Security Amendment Bill

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Phil Houghton 01/10/2006 Phil Houghton 01/10/2006

The Living Standards Report: Who is poor in Aotearoa New Zealand?

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Phil Houghton 01/09/2006 Phil Houghton 01/09/2006

Child poverty and family incomes policy in New Zealand

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Phil Houghton 01/08/2005 Phil Houghton 01/08/2005

Hard to Swallow: Foodbank use in New Zealand

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Phil Houghton 01/07/2005 Phil Houghton 01/07/2005

Workfare: Not Fair for Kids? A review of compulsory work policies and their effects on Children

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Phil Houghton 01/11/2004 Phil Houghton 01/11/2004

Cut Price Kids: Does the 2004 'Working for Families' Budget Work for Children?

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Phil Houghton 01/01/2004 Phil Houghton 01/01/2004

Submission on the Social Security (Social Assistance) Amendment Bill

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Phil Houghton 01/03/2003 Phil Houghton 01/03/2003

Our Children: The Priority for Policy (2nd edition)

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Phil Houghton 01/08/2001 Phil Houghton 01/08/2001

Submission to the Tax Review Committee

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Phil Houghton 01/07/2001 Phil Houghton 01/07/2001

Family Financial Assistance 1986-2002

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