Children & Youth

NAVIGATING THE RAPIDS In the hope of TRAVERSING POSITIVE PATHWAYS FOR CHANGE

Are foodbanks truly helping our people whānau and communities? Or are we creating more dependency? Why do we have these major food-related issues in such a wealthy and food-prosperous country, particularly for lower income people and whānau? These are just some of the questions that flood my mind when looking...

This second Covid-19 Lockdown Briefing includes a particular focus on Auckland. The two weeks since our first Covid-19 Lockdown Briefing has seen the rest of the country move down from Alert Level 3 to Level 2, on Wednesday 8 September, while Auckland remains at Level 4 until at least 21 September....

State of our Communities (SOOC) 2021 is a snapshot of the stories of local communities in Tokoroa, Carterton and Invercargill. SOOC combines real-life voices of locals with relevant public data to show that more effort must be made to prevent the social and economic decline in smaller regional and rural...

The Salvation Army strongly supports the initiative to create a National Strategy for the elimination of family violence and sexual violence.

The Salvation Army supports the objectives and intentions of this Bill to remove one part of the sanctions included in the Social Security Act 2018. We call for urgent further progress to implement wider reform of social security legislation to achieve the aim of significantly reducing poverty and hardship in...

Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi — The old net is cast aside whilst the new net goes fishing. The 2020 year was a year rocked by a worldwide pandemic and consequently a year of massive change in our world and our nation. Producing a State of the Nation Report...

This is our sixth and final Covid-19 Social Impact Dashboard for 2020. It has been both disturbing and illuminating for us to provide these Dashboards as a social commentary of the impacts of Covid-19 on communities since early April 2020.