Election 2017 - Party Policies - Communities - Youth
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- Ensure that all schools and early childhood services have policies, practices, and programmes to create a whole school culture that is inclusive and supports the elimination of prejudice, racism, bullying intimidation, and violence.
- Reintroduce a benefit for unsupported unemployed and sick young people aged 16 and 17.
- Support the introduction of an optional "gap year" doing a range of environmentally and socially constructive projects, to aid young people in their transition between school and further education and employment.
- Ensure young people are represented or have a voice on local body committees/community boards.
- Ensure the inclusion of comprehensive health, sex and drug education at intermediate and secondary levels in order to educate students about the negative effects of anti-social or "risk-taking" behaviour and to discourage students from abusing legal or illegal substances.
- Read more here.
- Ensure every student has a personalised career development plan.
- Professionalise careers advice and integrate it into learning. Every high school will have highly trained, skilled careers advice teaching staff.
- Develop partnerships between schools, businesses and training providers to provide young people with hands on experience in schools encouraging flexible approaches like the Gateway programme.
- Give unemployed young people a job for six months doing work of public value, so they can gain work experience and avoid long-term unemployment.
- Invest in COMET Auckland’s Youth Employability Passport, which is designed to create a greater link between education, business, and youth.
- Read more here, here, here, and here.
- Expand Passport to Life to every rangatahi aged 17 to 20 years to ensure every rangatahi leaves college with a driver’s licence, a bank account, an IRD number and a curriculum vitae.
- Expand the Rangatahi Suicide Prevention Strategy.
- Expand reciprocal Working Holiday Schemes to support greater rangatahi participation in overseas work holiday exchanges, and broaden appeal to international youth wanting to experience Māori culture.
- Establish tuākana/tēina role modelling programmes to encourage and incentivise rangatahi to make sound career planning decisions.
- Partner with iwi and local communities to provide better connections to identity, culture and language for rangatahi.
- Read more here.
- National will invest $72 million over the next four years to support beneficiaries under 25 years of age.
- Guaranteeing work experience or training for those who have been on a jobseekers benefit for six months or longer, and financial management training to help them develop financial responsibility.
- Providing rehabilitation services if drug use is identified as a barrier to employment.
- Ensuring all young people under 25 who are on a job seekers benefit receive intensive one-on-one case management to get a job.
- Job seekers without children who refuse work experience or training or recreational drug rehabilitation will lose 50 per cent of their benefit entitlement after four weeks of not meeting their obligations, with further reductions if that continues.
- Read more here.
- Introduce the philosophy that every young New Zealander can expect to be trained for careers and not left to rot on the dole.
- Introduce workforce planning and better careers guidance in schools.
- Provide driver license training for every secondary school student.
- Establish a dollar-for-dollar debt write-off scheme so that graduates in identified areas of workforce demand may trade a year’s worth of debt for each year of paid full-time work in New Zealand in that area.
- Provide real opportunities for young people to gain quality education and skills that will enable greater involvement in the economy.
- Read more here.
- Improve access to effective parenting programmes for a wider range of parents and parenting stages.
- Expand the Social Workers in Schools Programme beyond decile 1-3 schools.
- Use reparations, electronic monitoring and work on community projects (e.g. removing graffiti, house construction) as initial sentencing options for youth offenders, established through contracts drawn up between the police, the offender and their family, and backed up by harsher supervision for compliance failures.
- Support NGO mentoring programmes, such as the Buddy programme, whereby at-risk youth lacking responsible role models are in regular contact with others in the community who can have a positive influence on their behaviour, and the behaviour of their families.
- Conduct formal inquiry into youth engagement in elections with a view to reduce the voting age to 16. Scope to include potential issues and mitigations.
- Read more here and here.
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