This is the most outrageous capitulation to the Wellington Bureaucracy and Carmel Sepuloni should be sacked immediately!
As TDB has been arguing for sometime, this decision to amputate the Children’s Commissioner from oversight on OT has been driven by a despicable pubic service desperate to cover up their abuse of children and it should be spat upon with the most toxic venom we have!
Children’s Commissioner Frances Eivers accuses select committee of ignoring advice
Children’s Commissioner Frances Eivers has slammed Parliament’s social services select committee for failing to reverse a bill effectively dismantling the position of Children’s Commissioner.
After the horror of the Royal Inquiry into historic state abuse, the Ministry of Social Development wants to remove the Children’s Commissioner as oversight of Oranga Tamariki and instead roll such monitoring into the Education Review Office.
In the decades that ERO was monitoring Dilworth, they never picked up that some of the teachers were molesting their students so critics are concerned that a state agency with the power to take children from parents will have less oversight is deeply concerning. Surely Oranga Tamariki requires more oversight, not less?
MSD in the 2000s oversaw obscene tactics that included hiring private detectives to dig dirt on victims who were complaining about being abused in state care in a Test case that if MSD had lost would have cost the State untold in damages. State Services is now recommending any abuse inside Oranga Tamariki is now monitored out of the Education Review Office who have no skill in this area!
Why is the state allowing itself to cover up ongoing abuse?
Oranga Tamariki is a Frankenstein monster, a neoliberal welfare experiment conjured up by Bill English and big data.
The argument is that children from backgrounds with specific features were the worst in terms of cost to the state, so if the state stepped in and removed the children quickly enough, that cost will fall.
To do this they passed law reducing the legal rights of parents, streamlined their 0800 numbers and weaponised uplifts.
They also ensured that people with children taken from them are ineligible for legal aid so they couldn’t fight back legally.
Oranga Tamariki has always been about saving the State money and the welfare of the child is secondary to that isn’t it?
Carmel Sepuloni has merely rubber stamped this attempt to future proof the state from holding abusers to account, and Jacinda should sack her as Minister!
These Labour MPs are nothing but gutless quislings for the Wellington Bureaucracy!
Fucking disgraceful!
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Martyn, I feel that you have answered your own question.
“These Labour MPs are nothing but gutless quislings for the Wellington Bureaucracy”
Nothing will be done.
The broken system will continue to ruin another generation.
The PMC types that run the country will continue to serve their vested intrests.
The poor will be dominated, shackled with inequitable debt and mistreated.
The rentier class will be further enriched, the working class will carry the cost.
The Left will preside over as much misery as the Right, then the Right will further deconstruct the state.
Agree your comments regarding further deconstruction of the state under the Right, that is a given.
Bert I admire your loyalty to Labour but when they are plainly wrong it needs to be pointed out by supporters like you . It is called tough love .
Trevor, your own loyalty shields you from balance, sorry to say.
Sack Sepuloni and Davis both. If Davis articulated about today’s children has forcibly as he did about yesterday’s ancestors, then he’d be doing a much better job.
Agree
Sepuloni should have been reshuffled along with Faafoi more than 6 months ago.
I’ve always thought JA has a stubborn streak, while Sepuloni has a mean streak (and Faafoi only ever had shit streaks because he lost interest ages ago) – as loverly specimens they all may be.
It never ceases to amaze me how Labour’s intelligent beings still haven’t woken up to the Senior and upper muddle management ranks of the bureaucracy. I’m constantly reminded of that old saying that’ll no doubt trigger quite a few: “Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians” – the Chiefs studying the latest management theory and looking for LinkedIn underling recommendations’ greasing up the arses of their responsible Munsters for the purpose of capture, and promoting the idea they’re both impartial and indispensable while actually being disposable, having their own agendas rather than public service,
Here’s bit one example: A specimen involved in the whole MIQ debacle (booking cistern et al) that’s now gone on to promise better service from ACC case management. Pigs will fly!!!! (because our spin meisters tell us it shall be so)
I listened to Nick Drake this morning wininging Magic. His songs are sensitive and the music is ggreat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GNxvWWBmds
To – an unfeeling and basically inhuman government; politicians and administrators
Frim a young child who wouldn’t know how to express these telling feelings.
“Magic”
I was born to love no one
No one to love me
Only the wind in the long green grass
The frost in a broken tree.
I was made to love magic
All its wonder to know
But you all lost that magic
Many many years ago.
I was born to use my eyes
Dream with the sun and the skies
To float away in a lifelong song
In the mist where melody flies.
I was made to love magic…
I was born to sail away
Into a land of forever
Not to be tied to an old stone grave
In your land of never.
I was made to love magic…
Writer: Julia Fordham
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nickdrake/magic.html
(On 25 November 1974, Drake died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a prescribed antidepressant; he was 26 years old. Whether his death was an accident or suicide has not been resolved.)
I put in some typos just to get people interested. That’s my excuse. I did mean to put ‘singing Magic’ Do you like the words, I thought this woman penned a poignant piece?
And yet Martyn you whine about the prospect of the National led government taking the blowtorch to the public service. For all their expansion, including Oranga Tamariki, what benefits has the public of New Zealand derived? Big fat zero.
Labour exists at the behest of the union movement. Sepolini is a teacher’s union hack so is basically unfireable
And National at tge behest at the Business Round Table, NZ Herald and the Federated Farmers, so your point is?
Your first line is such utter bollocks, and your second line is a lie. As a teacher unionist I helped a principal to go the right way about getting rid of a bad teacher.
No teachers enjoy carrying a bad colleague, but that idea would not suit your simplistic views, would it Andrew?
Pathetic!
Then you’re an exception. When my kids were in high school the worst teacher in the school was the union rep. He was there for himself and certainly not the kids.
Andrew. Different times/places. Years ago when I taught in a London Comprehensive, staff met in their own time so as not to impact upon the kids’ time. It was a given. Now, here, children are shunted off home for whole days because it’s teacher time down at school.
Instead of constantly ‘bitching’ about the organisation charged with supporting New Zealand’s most vulnerable children – yes there have been children in State care abused (often within their own extended whanau whatsmore) but have you actually stopped to consider what might happen without OT, CYF or whatever you choose to call it? Why is there a need in the first place? Where is your indignance against the adults in the community who continue to harm children and there justifications for such abuse?
WTAF?
Jacinda Ardern :
*goes in to politics “to end child poverty “
* axes oversight by childrens commisioner.
I think we have to accept that ending “child povidy” was just electioneering spin, as was climate change being her generation’s nuclear moment – another steal from David Lange, who did spend London Christmas’s helping others. These worrying shenanigans re children’s well-being need other political parties to show some guts and advocate on their behalf if Sepuloni and the Minister for Children don’t.
@mickyboyle.
Poorly.
I will point out for the record, beyond “saving us from COVID” this Government has been a largely policy free zone.
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