NEW ZEALAND
TVNZ
The Government’s White Paper for Vulnerable Children has sparked debate from various organisations around the country.
NZEI past president Frances Nelson said the Government has missed a “golden opportunity” to tackle child poverty and “virtually ignored the many excellent submissions it received on the Green Paper for Vulnerable Children”.
She said the Government has again “gone down the road of punishment and monitoring”.
“We know that poverty is one of the leading causes of student underachievement. If the Government is serious about lifting student achievement, it would do something about child poverty.”
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