Workers would be required to undergo de-escalation and use-of-force training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCo-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said with M\u0101ori making up 70 percent of children in state care, the funding split for the two organisations made sense.<\/p>\n
“We’ve said this numerous times before, M\u0101ori are not the problem waiting to be punished.<\/p>\n
“It’s broken, it’s fundamentally broken because it’s designed off a system that assumed M\u0101ori could not look after our tamariki, our mokopuna, so that’s the basis of our policy today.”<\/p>\n
The party’s policy document said Oranga Tamariki simply could not be changed from within, quoting the Waitangi Tribunal’s conclusion that “reform of Oranga Tamariki, no matter how well designed, will ultimately fail another generation of children”.<\/p>\n
“Generations of our kids have been abused and mistreated by the state, and report after report has shown the racism and abuse that lies at the heart of Oranga Tamariki”, Ngarewa-Packer said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Co-leader Rawiri Waititi said the Crown had no legal rigth to remove mokopuna from their wh\u0101nau, hap\u016b and iwi.<\/p>\n
“How many more chances do we give a Crown agency which continues to breach Te Tiriti in removing our tamariki and mokopuna from their wh\u0101nau? The answer? None<\/p>\n
Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis said building another bureaucracy would be just missing the point.<\/p>\n
“I believe that our communities, our hap\u016b, our iwi, our M\u0101ori providers know how to look after our tamariki. So to build another bureaucracy I think is just missing the point.”<\/p>\n
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