, MINISTRY FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN, ORANGA TAMARIKI April 2017 1
,MINISTRY FORVULNERABLE CHILDREN, ORANGA TAMARIKI
April 2017
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EXPERT PANEL REVIEW OF
SYSTEM• Intensive, robust review of whole system, not just
Child, Youth and Family
• Informed by views of children, young people, whānau, social workers, NGO, Māori and Pacific communities
• Findings included:
Low aspirations
for children in
care
Children not
placed at the
centre
System is
fragmented and
lacks
accountability
System is
complex and
difficult to
navigate
Not enough focus
on prevention and
early intervention
Lack of culturally
appropriate
models
THE VOICE OF THE CHILD
• Nurture and love
• Help to make sense of what has happened
• A say in what happens next
• Connection to their birth family
• A sense of identity and belonging
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BUILDING BLOCKS OF FUTURE SYSTEM
Engaging all
New
Zealanders
A child-
centred
system
Strategic
partnering
An
investment
approach
High
aspirations
for Māori
A trauma-
informed
professional
practice
framework
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• Key objective to reduce the over representation of Māori tamariki and rangatahi in the care and protection and youth justice systems
• Higher aspirations and better life outcomes for Māori children and young people will be achieved by:
• investing in evidence-based interventions that make the biggest difference
• creating strong connections to culture and identity
• partnering with hāpū, iwi and Māori organisations.
HIGH ASPIRATIONS FOR MĀORI
ENGAGING ALL NEW ZEALANDERS
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Raise awarenessand create a senseof responsibility
Shift attitudes and social normsSee people act to
support vulnerable children and young people
National integrated and locally tailored campaigns
Engaged strong communities of action
An accessible, available, trusted, transparent new Ministry with high integrity
New Zealand values the
well-being of our children
above all else
Mokopuna
Review & Understand
Plan your delivery Strategy
Delivery
Monitor
STRATEGIC PARTNERING APPROACH
Work with Partners on how we can better meet needs:• What can market deliver?• Design of new services?• Adjust current services?• Deploy new delivery models?• What can be done to build the
market?
Mechanisms to support delivery:• In-house• Contracted services• Strategic partnering• Direct Purchase• Brokering etc
Work with Partners to:• Understand needs of mokopuna• Agree on common purpose• Evaluate performance of current
services• Gap analysis• Understand the market
Work in Partnership to:• Monitor delivery
of services• Support the
delivery of services
Develop strategic partnering principles, guidelines and
mechanisms to guide successful partnerships
• New operating model underpinned by a social investment approach involving:
• taking a lifetime view of the wellbeing of individual children
• intervening early in evidence-based ways to address their vulnerability
• Most effective way to make a significant, positive impact on their future lifetime outcomes.
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INVESTMENT APPROACH
A TRAUMA-INFORMED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE FRAMEWORK
The proposed framework will operate at two levels:
• An agency-level practice framework:
• includes tools for supported decision-making to ensure
a focus on the needs of individual children and young
people
• ensures that staff are clear about the “must-do’s”
• Ensures decisions and their rationale are transparent
and well-evidenced.
• A system-level practice framework:
• a unifying, consistent and coherent approach to the
principles and values across the vulnerable children
sector.
LEGISLATION REFORM – BILL
ONE
Views of children and young people
Embedding
children’s
voices into
the system
Establishment
of advocacy
services
Raising
the age of
C&P to
include 17
year olds
Workforce
changes
Changes to support the five core services of the new Ministry
Care
Support
Intensive
Intervention Youth
Justice
Transition
SupportPrevention
LEGISLATION REFORM –
BILL TWOViews of children and young people
Changes to provide the foundations for the system
Sharing information to
better respond to
vulnerable children and
young people
Supporting
improved
outcomes for
Māori
Ensuring a
child-centred,
accountable
system
MINISTRY FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN, ORANGA TAMARIKI• Launched on 1 April 2017
• Stand alone agency incorporates Child, Youth and Family, Community Investment, and Children’s Action Plan
• The new ministry:
• signals a whole of sector approach
• provides a single point of accountability
• has a broader remit, including prevention as a core area of focus.
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OUR VISION
New Zealand values the wellbeing of tamariki
above all else.
OUR PURPOSE
To ensure that all tamariki are in loving whanau
and communities where oranga tamariki can be
realised.
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CORE SERVICES
• Prevention
• Intensive Intervention
• Care Support
• Youth Justice
• Transition
• It will take four-five years for all the new services, systems and processes to be in place
• Early enhancement programme of work.
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