The legislation worrying political parties, state care survivors
The Bill is currently making its way through Parliament despite widespread opposition and the report authors are urging the Government to halt its progress, and listen to state care survivors.
"Thirty-nine young people took their own lives between 2017 and 2021 while in the care of the state," Ihorangi Reweti-Peters, a state care survivor, said during Youth Parliament last month.
He got support from fellow youth MPs after calling for politicians to fix a system he said is failing young people like him.
The Government's looking to pass legislation to improve the monitoring of Oranga Tamariki, but Reweti-Peters said "it's placing the monitor inside a government department", the Education Review Office. It's his opinion that "is not independent from government".
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