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Martyn Bomber Bradbury: With the resignation of Grainne Moss from Oranga Tamariki, Kelvin Davis has lost a second political victory to the Māori Party in less than a month.
His refusal to personally engage and de-escalate the prison riot at Waikeria Prison allowed for the Māori Party to step up and negotiate an end and gain a surprise early political victory, and by not decisively sacking Moss and allowing her to resign, Kelvin has inadvertently handed the Māori Party a second surprise victory.
The Māori Party argument that Māori run agencies with a clear Māori cultural world view as their guiding principles should be leading welfare agencies dealing with Māori is only made stronger when Public Servants can cause the kind of damage Oranga Tamriki did and all that happens is a reshuffling of Pakeha bureaucrats.
With the resignation of Grainne Moss from Oranga Tamariki, Kelvin Davis has lost a second political victory to the Māori Party in less than a month.
His refusal to personally engage and de-escalate the prison riot at Waikeria Prison allowed for the Māori Party to step up and negotiate an end and gain a surprise early political victory, and by not decisively sacking Moss and allowing her to resign, Kelvin has inadvertently handed the Māori Party a second surprise victory.
The Māori Party argument that Māori run agencies with a clear Māori cultural world view as their guiding principles should be leading welfare agencies dealing with Māori is only made stronger when Public Servants can cause the kind of damage Oranga Tamriki did and all that happens is a reshuffling of Pakeha bureaucrats.
• Source: 1 NEWS
The outgoing deputy chief executive of Oranga Tamariki says people shouldn’t be concentrating the blame of the agency’s shortcomings on individuals within the organisation, because the “system” that sees pēpi Māori disproportionately enter state care is a complex and interconnected one.
Your playlist will load after this ad The agency’s outgoing deputy chief executive says people’s “vitriol” against Moss is “unfortunate”. Source: Breakfast
Yesterday, it was confirmed Hoani Lambert, of Ngati Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa descent, was stepping down from his role at Oranga Tamariki after four years. He is taking up a role in the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA).