Rush reiterated that diversity and mainstreaming within the system is fundamentally important, allowing students with neurodiversities, such as autism, or special education needs to be included in general education classrooms.
However, he says there needs to be urgent action around alternatives for seriously troubled young people with violent tendencies that threaten the safety of fellow students and staff. We are seeing really serious, damaging behaviours - hitting, spitting, stabbing, sexualised behaviours towards other students. We have a legislative responsibility to be concerned about how we can protect not only that student, but the students around them, he said. We support inclusion, but we [need] a solution for those very, seriously troubled young people - and young people who are exhibiting behaviours that are harmful for those around them. We cannot support a schooling system where young people are being hurt, that is not okay.
Thomas Manch15:17, Apr 30 2021
Te Ao
First annual report shows Oranga Tamariki working more closely with Māori. Published August 11, 2020.
The Waitangi Tribunal has called on the Government to step back from intruding into Māori communities, ruling the care of Māori children by Oranga Tamariki has breached the Treaty of Waitangi. The tribunal, which released its report after a two-year inquiry into Oranga Tamariki uplifts on Friday, has said an independent Māori Transition Authority should be created to reform the agency’s care and protection system for tamariki Māori. “Māori must be given the right to chart their own path towards realisation in contemporary times of the Treaty promise of rangatiratanga over their kāinga,” the tribunal said in its decision.
The boy has done some community work and sport, but a source familiar with his situation says he spends most of his time playing video games and watching TV. A couple of times he’s absconded at night, the source says, once stealing his caregiver’s car keys, pushing the vehicle down the drive so as not to wake anyone, and then driving off and not returning until morning. Police have visited regularly to check up on him. The youth is one of hundreds of children in the care of Oranga Tamariki who are being housed in motels because other options can’t be found, a practice slammed by the Children’s Commissioner.
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