Oranga Tamariki oversight: Minister Carmel Sepuloni defends changes amid widespread oppositionLabour is defending plans to overhaul oversight of Oranga Tamariki despite the vast majority of submitters, many of them state care “survivors”, and every other political party opposing them. Let’s be very clear why Labour are bewilderingly amputating the Children’s Commissioners oversight of Oranga Tamariki by folding it into ERO (Education Review Office). It’s because Labour are cowards when it comes to taking on the Wellington Bureaucracy! This is an arse covering exercise by the Wellington Bureaucracy over the most vulnerable children and Labour are letting the Wellington Bureaucracy get away with it because Labour are terrified of the Unions and power represented by that Wellington Bureaucracy. Meanwhile vulnerable children are being hurt right now by a system that refers to them as ‘clients’.

Source: Stuff June 21, 2022 23:49 UTC