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Willow talks to the Select Committee about the Children’s Act

“It has to change” – Child Safeguarding Charity Urges Children’s Act Overhaul

Our CEO Willow Duffy recently spoke to the Government Select Committee about the urgency for an overhaul of the Children’s Act

Weeks after New Zealand’s Abuse in Care inquiry findings were laid bare, the country’s only child safeguarding charity is calling for an overhaul of the Children’s Act, saying current legislation is failing vulnerable tamariki.

Parliament’s Social Services and Community Committee today heard from Safeguarding Children CEO Willow Duffy about changes required to the Children’s Act 2014 to protect children from abuse.

Click here to watch Willow’s submission to the Select Committee.

 

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