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Around 28,000 families will be eligible for extra help with child care costs from Monday

A new code of conduct for social workers was welcomed today by Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey and Associate Social Development and Employment Minister Ruth Dyson.

A productive, highly skilled and well-paid workforce is the vision laid out in the government's updated employment strategy.

More New Zealanders than ever before are in work, according to the June Household Labour Force Survey

The latest Social Report shows solid progress on social issues

The number of working-aged New Zealanders on benefits has fallen in every region in the country over the past year as unemployment benefit numbers reached a 19 year low.

After Work and Income's most successful year to date, the agency's new regional plans will see even more New Zealanders helped off benefits and into work.

Address to launch of the 2005/06 Work and Income Regional Plans, Palmerston North

Victoria University of Wellington School of Government panel discussion on social welfare

A new government initiative resources income support plans for victims of family violence

The government's Pacific Wave strategy has achieved its goal of halving Pacific unemployment in Auckland in just two years.

The government is increasing funding and support to doctors assessing people for Sickness and Invalids Benefits.

The real debate in the upcoming campaign will be about the future of New Zealand, not National's elusive tax cut plan.

Don Brash's constant attacks on an ever-growing number of New Zealanders makes his pitch to "mainstream New Zealand" alarmingly narrow.

National is scrambling on welfare policy, Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey said today.

Don Brash's concession that child poverty rates could increase under a National government were astonishing and revealed how far National was prepared to go to pay for tax cuts.

Steve Maharey today re-affirmed the government's commitment to eliminating child poverty in New Zealand, saying the Working for Families package would lift thousands more children out of poverty by the time it was fully implemented in 2007.

Social wellbeing is steadily improving under the Labour-led government

National would scrap the second half of the Working for Families package to support its policy of tax cuts.

Trials of a new work-focussed service for all beneficiaries will begin in 12 locations across the country next month as part of the government's reform of the welfare system.

Around 200,000 families are already receiving extra help as a result of the 1 April Working for Families increases in family income assistance.

A job partnership between the government and the Lion Nathan School of Business that will see Work and Income clients trained for work in the hospitality industry, was launched today by Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey.

Programmes aimed at children and families in greatest need will get a $47 million Budget boost

The long term unemployed will be helped into jobs through a $21 million funding increase in the budget