Evidence absent in Govt's child safety move on Oranga Tamariki

Evidence absent in Govt's child safety move on Oranga Tamariki

Aotearoa New Zealand is only beginning to reckon with the enormous violence and trauma inflicted on thousands of children and young people in state care since the 1940s, the majority of whom whakapapa Māori. The Royal Inquiry into Abuse in State Care has yet to be finalised but has made explicit the strained or broken whakapapa, violence, and ill-treatment suffered by tamariki under our care and protection system. And yet against the advice of i…