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Checkpoint under the Official Information Act showed the rate of anti-depressants prescribed to Māori, and Pasifika was up to 34 times less than other ethnicities.
That was despite Māori and Pasifika having higher rates of mental health difficulties.
The data from the Ministry of Health looked at the number of anti-depressants prescribed from 2017-2020.
On average other ethnicities were given antidepressants at eight times the rate of Māori, 34 times the rate of Pasifika and 16 times the rate of Asians.
That was despite research which showed one in three Māori, and one in four Pacific people experienced mental illness compared to one in five for the total population according to the latest mental health report from 2018.
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A school says its approach to a complaint did not prioritise the victim s welfare.
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Former staff member James Tibbles resigned from the school in 1998, and from Auckland University in December last year, over similar allegations.
St Cuthbert s Trust Board chair Hayley Buckley said in a statement that the staff member was suspended and then resigned soon after a 1998 complaint. While we do understand that the college made genuine efforts to address what happened at the time, we acknowledge that the college s investigation in 1998 and subsequent actions were not good enough, she said.
She added that the process did not prioritise the victim s welfare.
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