,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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