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Children's Minister gives Oranga Tamariki a new set of instructions · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Children's Minister Karen Shaw has handed Orranga Tamadiki a new
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  Speaker 1: set of instructions to keep the agency accountable and transparent.
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  Speaker 1: She's outlined five new measures she expects to be reported
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  Speaker 1: on every quarter. They include things like how many children
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  Speaker 1: in care access a social worker in a two month period.
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  Speaker 1: Addressing youth offending, she wants to see a fifteen percent
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  Speaker 1: cut in the persistent offending. The Blue Light Operations manager
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  Speaker 1: Rod Bella is with us this morning. Rod, Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being on the program that you're obviously your
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  Speaker 1: charity does go great work. You run youth camps and
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  Speaker 1: programs and support with alongside police for young people. I
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  Speaker 1: just wonder with all the cuts that the government's making
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, have you guys been affected by those?
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  Speaker 2: Are we have? We have been a little bit, but
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  Speaker 2: you get on and you continue to make a positive
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  Speaker 2: impact that at Hurst, we have lost some of our programs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've shown our programs they would have been
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  Speaker 2: of seven dollars ten th every dollar invested, so that
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  Speaker 2: that has impacted us, but most importantly it impacted some
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  Speaker 2: of our services.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what does it meant for your services? What have
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  Speaker 1: you had to cut back?
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  Speaker 2: It's probably unfortunately in the proactive area. So are we
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  Speaker 2: still doing a lot of work with young people who
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  Speaker 2: have been in trouble and working to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: they get back and get into work and get into
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  Speaker 2: more positive outputs. But some of the programs which are
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  Speaker 2: before young people get into trouble as the ones that
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  Speaker 2: have been affected, which is really would much prefer to
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  Speaker 2: see that happen before they get in trouble rather than
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  Speaker 2: wait to work with them once they are.
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  Speaker 1: So coming to these goals that the ministers set for
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  Speaker 1: OT you know, fifteen percent reduction in young people serious
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  Speaker 1: persistent offending, I mean the fact that you've had funding
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  Speaker 1: cut to a program that's going to achieve exactly that
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  Speaker 1: outcome seems counterintuitive to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. Look I think the outline measures are
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  Speaker 2: pretty basic in a way, and they should be what's
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  Speaker 2: been written. It should happen automatically. You would think there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing in there icee of particularly complication. We all want
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  Speaker 2: our kids to wake up healthy and safe and well
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  Speaker 2: and not none of them get hurt and be well
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  Speaker 2: looked after if they have to be in care. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, the fifteen percent reduction, that's great. Sometimes figures
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  Speaker 2: are figures. I think what you need is to have
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  Speaker 2: people feel in the community that there safe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Rod, thank you so much for that. Rod Bell,
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  Speaker 1: the operations manager at blue Light, responding there to Karen
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  Speaker 1: Shaw's direction for auditing a tamadiki. The time is fourteen
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  Speaker 1: after fight.
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