The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 20th August 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Completely common now for developers to lobby council and privately manage to change the zoning of land so they can buy it cheap and then make money on the zoning change, which the councils hide… no wonder our cities are grid locked as yet another mall goes up, destroying the communities around them and leaving all the costs of transport gridlock to others, likewise taking more people away from existing shops and services that go under as there are too many of the same types of developments. Instead of people using local shops they are encouraged to drive to big complexes with parking. More and more land unsuitable for food production while wastewater issues intensify with all the concrete and diesel developments.
Neighbours ‘furious’ they weren’t told about Napier shopping complex project
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/115127346/neighbours-furious-they-werent-told-about-napier-shopping-complex-project
(Also councils keeping information from their own councillors and bodies who are supposed to be consulted on these activities but instead favours are exchanged and it is all hush, hush.
Oranga Tamariki need to urgently to put things in place to have much higher quality placements for uplifted kids. The kids should not be constantly moved around to dysfunctional placements and split up siblings.
It is ridiculous that money is spent everywhere in terms of process but actually very low on the kids placements and wellbeing! Lawyers, social workers and so forth are fighting over every kid who gets substandard care, because the placements are not of a high enough value and priority in the thinking.
These kids are traumatised and need specialised care, it is a joke they are often put with short term or dysfunctional family placements who have similar issues with the child and placements hands are tied in terms of the quality of the care to their wards because everyone else is able to fight over the child. It would be emotionally difficult to be a care giver in the circumstances, but that is not recognised or valued with how the process is working or things put in law to try and recruit quality placements (aka retired teachers or psychologists)…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115120454/abused-and-suffering-in-the-care-of-oranga-tamariki-karisma-emerys-story