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The final weeks of school holidays may not feel like much of a holiday for parents rushing around making sure kids have everything they need. And for some, the cost of back-to-school necessities like stationery and uniforms can be overwhelming, with massive disparities between what different schools require. But some schools and organisations are helping to alleviate this burden where they can. Checkpoint's Tom Taylor reports. ....
1700 Auckland kids face painful wait for tooth surgery as Covid-19 aggravates dental backlogs 5 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read Nicholas Jones is an investigative reporter at the New Zealand Herald [email protected]@nickjonesnzer More than 1700 Auckland children are stuck in a backlog for tooth extraction surgery, forcing them to live in pain and risking their wellbeing and education, after Covid-19 put more strain on an already overburdened health service, the Weekend Herald has learned. An internal report by the Auckland and Northland district health boards, prepared late last year, said the waiting list amounted to a classroom of children, aged mainly 3-6 years old, needing a surgical extraction under anaesthetic, every week for a year . ....