Stuff has seen an email sent by a North Shore police sergeant to Henry's Oranga Tamariki case manager in 2017. Youth advocate and lawyer Maria Pecotic said when Oranga Tamariki took over, they had "rights as the parent". Black Power member and former youth worker Denis O'Reilly said Oranga Tamariki had made grassroots responses to situations like this "practically impossible". "Gone should be the days that this is seen as an Oranga Tamariki problem to fix," he said. His lawyer-for-child is also of this view," Oranga Tamariki Youth Justice Regional Manager Auckland, Peter Hepburn said.

Source: Stuff March 30, 2019 19:18 UTC