The Children’s Commissioner and Assistant Māori Commissioner are calling for a plan for the mandatory vaccination of teachers and the entire children’s workforce in New Zealand
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Thursday, 1 July 2021, 1:32 pm
The Children’s Commissioner and Assistant Māori
Commissioner are welcoming, and relieved by, the decision of
Oranga Tamariki to commit to the phased closure of Care and
Protection institutional residences.
“This could not
come quickly enough. At long last this signals the ditching
of an old-fashioned model that, along with orphanages and
borstals has no place in the 21st century,” Commissioner
Becroft says.
“Our office, including skilled staff
who regularly monitor these places and talk with mokopuna
there, are overjoyed that their repeated calls for action
have finally been heard.
“The concerns raised in the
newsroom video are not new and are well-known to both us and