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$2m upgrade for ‘creaky’ mega government database

A mega database critical to the government’s social investment approach has required a $2 million upgrade because it is creaking at the seams.

The Integrated Data Infrastructure, run by Statistics New Zealand, is a large anonymised database holding “microdata about people and households” sourced from government agencies, surveys and NGOs.

It is often used by government agencies and academics for research purposes under strict conditions.

Ministerial documents released to RNZ under the Official Information Act show that while the database is considered the “primary tool” to support the government’s social investment analysis, it is “outdated”, receiving little investment since it was first developed in 2011.

Bill English and his daughter who runs his bag data social investment company have sold to National that using AI and Big Data to decide long term cost savings is the solution to universal welfare, but the way Stats NZ keeps the data won’t allow the Big Data mining they want so a cold $2m has been dropped to give a report of how much really does need to be spent.

There is no way this will only cost $2m, watch this budget explode!

I have been warning and warning and warning that the Big Data Social Investment fascism would lead to an eruption of uplifts from a weaponised OT.

And it begins…

Government Coy On Police Plan To Target ‘At Risk’ Children For Social Investment

Police want ‘at risk’ children as young as nine to be targeted for social investment to prevent them becoming criminals.

It is one of two ideas nominated by police for inclusion in the government’s social investment work programme, ministerial documents released to RNZ under the Official Information Act show.

In a May briefing to Police Minister Mark Mitchell, police floated the idea of “targeted prevention support to 9 to 12-year-olds to prevent them entering the youth justice system”.

Social investment involves using data and evidence to identify people with the greatest needs and was first championed in 2015 by former Prime Minister Bill English, who believed early intervention could save the government money over a person’s lifetime, and it is back on the agenda, driven by Finance and Social Investment Minister Nicola Willis, who once worked for English.

The briefing, ahead of the first ‘Social Investment Ministers Group’ meeting on 22 May, said three-quarters of youth crime was carried out by the “10 percent of young people who have the greatest exposure to hardship and disadvantage”.

These children were most likely to have been exposed to family violence, poverty, had contact with Oranga Tamariki, and have parents who had experienced drug or alcohol addiction, poor mental health, or had been in prison, the paper said.

“We propose targeting support to 9 to 12-year-old children experiencing hardship and disadvantage to ensure they are on track to succeed and prevent them entering the youth justice system in the next five years.”

Police could identify these children through family harm incidents they attended, or because they were siblings of children and young people who had already offended, the paper said.

It suggested that targeted support could reduce the likelihood of offending, increase school attendance, improve long-term outcomes and reduce long-term social costs such as ‘justice system cost and benefit dependence.”

Police themselves would not implement such a programme – that would be left up to another government agency – but could support the approach by identifying and referring children they thought would benefit, NZ Police said in a statement.

…let’s be clear.

The Big Data Social Investment model is about intervening to stop a problem child from costing the state downstream.

That means OT needs to have its uplift function weaponised once the Wellington Bureaucrats switch the Big Data model on.

That means uplifting kids at the drop of a hat.

The danger of removing Section 7aa from OT was that 7aa forced OT to negotiate with Iwi service providers before uplifting a child.

Removing 7aa means OT can uplift at will with zero negotiation with Iwi stakeholders.

Now the State is focused on using Big Data against children, it will see a tsunami of uplifts.

The State taking a child from a parent is the most extreme power imbalance we have in a liberal progressive society. If we uplift children into State care where they statistically stand to be abuse more than if they had been left in the community, you have a very damaged and broken system that requires more oversight, not less!

What the Social Investment Model intends to do is unapologetically supercharge the uplift process and weaponise it against those Orac warns us will cost the State more money down stream.

We need more oversight here, not less and the willingness of this Government to embark upon this radical yet invisible welfare experiment should be ringing alarm bells everywhere.

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