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040 _aAFVC
100 _aFitzmaurice-Brown, Luke
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245 _aRevisiting the 2019 Oranga Tamariki inquiries :
_bwhat did we learn, and what might that mean for the future of child protection in Aotearoa?
_cLuke Fitzmaurice-Brown
260 _c2023
_bAotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers,
500 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 35(3), 5–18
520 _aIntroduction: Widespread protests against Oranga Tamariki in 2019 led to six separate reviews in the following two years, the majority of which specifically focused on tamariki and whānau Māori. Now that the dust has settled on those reviews, what can be learned by revisiting them? Approach: This article analyses the key themes of each of the reviews. It finds that there are areas of concern common to all six, but that there is a major split within them on how to achieve the necessary long-term changes. Some of the reviews suggest that improvements can be made within the current system, while others suggest that only radical transformation will improve outcomes for tamariki and whānau Māori. Conclusions: Understanding the split between the reviews is important given the views of numerous child-protection researchers that more structural changes to the child-protection system are required if we are to address underlying problems. If the issues are more fundamental, then claims to reform may not only be inadequate, but they may also make the problem worse, by sustaining the systems which cause the underlying harms in the first place. The split in the approach of the reports reveals that it is not just “What do children and whānau need?” that matters, it is also “who gets to decide what children and whānau need?” Understanding these issues from a structural perspective remains crucial, and future reviews of the child-protection system which fail to address those underlying problems are unlikely to lead to effective long-term change. (Author's abstract). Record #8364
610 _aOranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children
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650 _aCHILD PROTECTION
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650 _aCHILD WELFARE
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650 _aGOVERNMENT POLICY
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650 _aINFANTS
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650 _aINTERVENTION
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650 _aMĀORI
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650 0 _aPĒPĒ
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650 _aSOCIAL POLICY
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650 4 _aSOCIAL SERVICES
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650 _aSOCIAL WORK
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651 4 _aNEW ZEALAND
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773 0 _tAotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 35(3), 5–18
830 _aAotearoa New Zealand Social Work
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856 _uhttps://anzswjournal.nz/anzsw/article/view/1032
_zOpen access, PDF
856 _uhttps://nzfvc.org.nz/news/ministry-children-oranga-tamariki-waitangi-tribunal-conduct-urgent-inquiry-internal-practice
_zRead related NZFVC news, 19 November 2019
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