Lack of play areas for kids in emergency housing prompts wellbeing concerns
19 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM
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There are concerns cramped conditions in emergency housing could harm children s development. Photo / File
A lack of safe spaces for children to play in Rotorua motels used for emergency housing has some worried children s development and wellbeing will suffer long term. This follows long-held concerns that kids living in motels - potentially spending weeks in cramped conditions - are being exposed to distressing situations, with families living alongside gang members.
Official documents show ministers were warned about the risks to public safety in Rotorua a year ago, and that week-by-week motel accommodation is not so suitable for families, or those with high needs, Radio New Zealand revealed yesterday.
Rotorua Daily Post Year in Review: May 2020
2 Jan, 2021 02:19 AM
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Rotorua Primary School students Elodie Lines, 9, Taine Acton, 10, and India Rogers, 9, were happy to be back at school. Photo / File
Rotorua Primary School students Elodie Lines, 9, Taine Acton, 10, and India Rogers, 9, were happy to be back at school. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
The Rotorua Daily Post is looking back at the stories of 2020. Here s what made headlines in May.
May 6
Business chambers and forestry leaders across the country called on the Government to adopt a wood-first policy, saying it would create more than 3000 jobs nationwide.
The policy would mean homegrown wood and processed timber would be the preferred building material for publicly-funded residential, commercial and public buildings post Covid-19.
Summer read: Rotorua s unsung heroes of the lockdown
29 Dec, 2020 07:00 PM
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The race is on to find a vaccine for Covid-19, so when will one be ready? Video / AP
The race is on to find a vaccine for Covid-19, so when will one be ready? Video / AP
Rotorua Daily Post
The Rotorua Daily Post is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020.
While most of us are on lockdown, at home with loved ones, some of Rotorua s essential workers won t get to see theirs for at least four weeks. They ve chosen to self-isolate themselves away from children and partners and are putting their own health on the line every day to make sure everyone in the community, the majority strangers, can access everything they need while New Zealand is in lockdown. If our city s healthcare providers and police staff to our supermarket workers and truck drivers, can do this for us, we should be able to stay home for them.