Election 2017 - Party Policies - Families - Children
27th May 17, 9:45am
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- Extend income management to any parent who has additional children while on a benefit.
- Read more here.
- Ensuring the OSCAR subsidy for after school and holiday programmes is available to all kids from low-income families.
- Give every new born baby a Wahakura - Baby Pod, which includes a safe sleeping place as well as clothes, nappies and bedding
- Develop a strategy to tackle child poverty and ensure accountability of outcomes. This strategy will require measurement of child poverty, short and long term poverty reduction targets, child poverty related indicators and monitoring and regular reporting of results.
- Develop a comprehensive strategy on protection against all forms of violence abuse and neglect, including comprehensive prevention measures for the family and home, schools, community and broader society at all levels.
- Turn the In Work Tax Credit into a Children's Credit for all families, which will give at least an extra $72 a week to low income families.
- Read more here, here, here, and here.
- Implement a Families Package that will deliver more money to families with children and reduce child poverty. Targeted support at low and middle income families through the introduction of the Best Start scheme, the continuation of Accommodation Supplement increases and our increase in Working for Families payments.
- Establish a child poverty reduction target; and legislate a focus on the reduction of child poverty by measuring all financial policies against their impact on children and assessing progress at each budget.
- Rename the Ministry of Vulnerable Children the Ministry for Children: Oranga Tamariki and expand its scope to reflect upholding the wellbeing of all children.
- Support Whānau Ora to be successful by investing an extra $20 million over four years; and appoint an Independent Whānau Ora Reviewer responsible to Parliament tasked with monitoring the performance of, and expenditure on, commissioning agencies and Whānau Ora.
- Fund an additional 100 Plunket and Tamariki Ora nurses to increase the help available for vulnerable parents and babies.
- Read more here, here, here, and here.
- Require Oranga Tamariki to engage in strategic partnerships with iwi and Māori organisations as a primary mechanism to improve outcomes for vulnerable Māori children, young people and their whānau.
- Increase the numbers of kaiwhakawhanaungatanga (whānau researchers) from 20 nationally to 150 in Oranga Tamariki.
- Require Oranga Tamariki to invest in Whānau Ora to assist whānau to develop a stronger understanding on their own strengths and how they can better access social services to support better outcomes for vulnerable children.
- Create 12 pilots based around the 1000 Days Trust model, an early intervention model which consists of a week-long residential services supported by a 1000 Days follow up service for Whānau.
- Read more here.
- Overhauling the childcare and protection system to ensure the most at-risk children get the protection and opportunities they deserve.
- Lifting the Family Tax Credit rates for young children to those of children aged 16 to 18.
- Give more families a chance to have a baby by providing a third free IVF cycle, and speeding up access to fertility treatment for eligible couples.
- Read more here, here and here.
- Ensure New Zealanders have the means to have independence from the State with an emphasis on parental responsibility.
- Read more here.
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