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Tracie Shipton: VOYCE Whakarongo Mai Chief Executive says young Māori are "over-represented" in Oranga Tamariki · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Another new report showing some Maori kids are falling through
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  Speaker 1: the cracks. The Independent Children's Monitor found all the usual
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  Speaker 1: stats for those in state care. Here's an interesting one.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety two percent of those in trouble with Youth Justice
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  Speaker 1: had a previous care and protection concern raised about them
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  Speaker 1: when they were younger. In other words, childhood at home
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  Speaker 1: was bad, then they act out. Tracy Shipton CEO and
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  Speaker 1: voice of fuck itong with my is with me? Tracy,
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  Speaker 1: good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you on this program. Does this report
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  Speaker 1: tell us anything new?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't tell us as an organization anything new
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  Speaker 2: because we've been talking with young people for years now
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  Speaker 2: and getting their view on the care system, so it's
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  Speaker 2: not a big surprise to us.
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  Speaker 1: So do you have any hope anything is going to change?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter what government's in place, And
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  Speaker 1: this report says that even the interventions that have been
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  Speaker 1: put in place, you can't accurately tell whether they're having
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  Speaker 1: much of an effect.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think what the report does tell us is
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  Speaker 2: that there's opportunities to actually make impactful intervention really early.
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  Speaker 2: It tells us that ninety two percent go on from
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  Speaker 2: care and protection concern raised to youth Justice tells us
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  Speaker 2: there was a window somewhere earlier to do something, And
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  Speaker 2: I guess for us, that's the challenge. What can we
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  Speaker 2: do earlier? What can we do as a collective community
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  Speaker 2: that's going to really impact positively the lives of these
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  Speaker 2: young of these young people.
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  Speaker 1: The Minister of Finance and Bill English before her would say,
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  Speaker 1: the answer is social investment, you target These are the
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  Speaker 1: exactly the young people you want to be targeting, and
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  Speaker 1: you already have these red flags right that they've been
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  Speaker 1: in a home where there's been a care and protection issue.
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  Speaker 1: Is that an answer?
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  Speaker 2: I think well, what certainly is an answer is saying
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  Speaker 2: that we should invest in young people. Like if we
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  Speaker 2: think about the language and what we're saying in these
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  Speaker 2: reports is we want better outcomes. What's a better outcome?
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  Speaker 2: A better outcome is a childhood where somebody emerges from
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  Speaker 2: it hole. We have opportunities here, It's not happening, it's
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  Speaker 2: this is a stark reminder that if we get an
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  Speaker 2: early wrap around gives lots of support to Farno and
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  Speaker 2: young people at the right opportunity, Yes, we can make
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  Speaker 2: a difference. I am totally optimist that we can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Tracy, appreciate your time this morning. Tracy Shipton, CEO of Voice,
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  Speaker 1: Fuck Itong with mine. It is sixteen after five year
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  Speaker 1: and that's just how you do it and how effective
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  Speaker 1: it is, whether you know whether you're just throwing money
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  Speaker 1: pissing in the wind. Basically. For more from early edition
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