By Phil Pennington of RNZ The Government’s own advisers have told it the tougher its new boot camps are, the worse they will work. A trial of the Young.
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“Without appropriate survey data, it’s hard to see how our understanding of poverty persistence, which is legally required under the Child Poverty Reduction Act, will be delivered,” Dr Achmad says.