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    ‘DID WE OFFEND THE WRONG PEOPLE?’

    Mar 06, 2022 4 minutes

    Why end the Children’s Commissioner?

    Since 1989, the Children’s Commissi-oner has been New Zealand’s advocate for children and monitor of the care and protection system. In New Zealand, most people in the role have been practitioners working in child protection – paediatricians, social workers, judges and lawyers. By and large, they’ve been pretty effective, leading advocacy to ban hitting of children, reduce child poverty, increase the age of culpability for crime, and improve the care and protection system.

    So why would our Government want to end the role of Children’s Commissioner?

    The Government’s proposed legislation, which will result in the disestablishment of the Children’s Commissioner, follows a series of Cabinet

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