Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Jane Searle: Child Matters CEO on the $41 million investment into Oranga Tamariki staff training
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Now. Minister for Children Karen Shaw yesterday announced more money
- 0:03Speaker 1: for ordering a Tamadiki staff professional training forty one million
- 0:07Speaker 1: dollars for the residential workforce. She said the funds will
- 0:10Speaker 1: go towards uplifting the number of staff with quote professional qualifications.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Jane sill Is Child Matter CEO with me this morning.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Hi Jane, good morning, Ryan, Thanks for being with me.
- 0:20Speaker 1: So what exactly do the staff need training for?
- 0:26Speaker 2: Well, we've known there's been this has been an issue
- 0:28Speaker 2: for years and years. It's been identifying reports. The kids
- 0:31Speaker 2: they're dealing with are really high needs and complex, and
- 0:33Speaker 2: we've known that the staff didn't have the training to
- 0:36Speaker 2: know how to meet their needs, deal with the escalate situations.
- 0:40Speaker 2: So I'm happy to see the investment in the space.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Okay, what exactly you know? Have we got examples of
- 0:46Speaker 1: things that are going wrong?
- 0:48Speaker 2: Well, we've known for a long time that the staff
- 0:50Speaker 2: went suited. They didn't know how to deal with the
- 0:52Speaker 2: trauma thest kids go through, They didn't know how to
- 0:54Speaker 2: de escalate situations. Is a good one. You know that
- 0:59Speaker 2: takes a lot of one key and a lot of
- 1:01Speaker 2: expertise to actually make a difference when you're dealing with
- 1:03Speaker 2: some of our most high risk kids, and we were
- 1:05Speaker 2: having staff that didn't have that expertise, and there was
- 1:08Speaker 2: high turnover and there just wasn't any consistency of training.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so who's going to do all this training?
- 1:14Speaker 2: Is?
- 1:14Speaker 1: Are there people they're ready to go and do it
- 1:17Speaker 1: once the money is free?
- 1:19Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that we've had the details release
- 1:21Speaker 2: of exactly who it's going to be, but my understanding
- 1:24Speaker 2: is is they want to get experts in certain areas
- 1:27Speaker 2: to do that. How they implement this is going to
- 1:30Speaker 2: be the key. So the amount I'm I'm happy to
- 1:32Speaker 2: see good investment. In fact, i'd like to see that
- 1:34Speaker 2: a cross training right across Old Rang and somebody key.
- 1:37Speaker 2: But how they actually do that and how they make
- 1:39Speaker 2: that a difference, that's going to be the key, isn't it.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Well it will be how much time they have for
- 1:46Speaker 1: each case is also pretty crucial, isn't it, Because I mean,
- 1:50Speaker 1: if you're going in and trying to do a quick
- 1:52Speaker 1: job on a very broken child, I imagine that's not
- 1:55Speaker 1: a sustainable way to go about business.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Not all, it won't make any donts, it's years and
- 2:00Speaker 2: years of work that it takes to actually fully support
- 2:04Speaker 2: these kids to be able to make the changes that
- 2:06Speaker 2: we need. So we've got five residents of New Zealand
- 2:09Speaker 2: and by my calculations, about one hundred and seventy one
- 2:11Speaker 2: spaces that can be filled. So there all fill. That's
- 2:14Speaker 2: a significant amount of young people that we need to
- 2:16Speaker 2: support long term. So it's a big undertaking.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly is Jane appreciate your I cross that this
- 2:23Speaker 1: morning for us. Jane cell Child Matters CEO. For more
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