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Partnership with Industry opens the Gateway

An address to the Open Polytechnic's South Island graduation class.

The government’s $2.75 billion Working for Families package boosts the incomes of working families more than any tax cuts package ever could.

New initiatives to improve residential services for young people have been unveiled

Work will soon begin on planning for a new youth justice residence.

A targetted bail programme to provide intensive community-based support for young people.

An extensive review of residential services for young people has led to the development of key initiatives.

Mangere MP Taito Phillip Field is urging people

Pupils at 62 primary schools across

Both financial and practical support for families to bring up their children was provided in Budget 2004.

Comments at an event marking Five Years of Strengthening Families in Dunedin. Dunedin Public Library.

Funding to enable the Trust to continue has been approved by the government.

The Budget increase in school

The Working for Families package takes aim at child poverty and will reduce it dramatically.

Comments at a briefing to social sector organisations

Working for Families shifts the focus of NZ's social assistance system from passive welfare entitlements to active support to move into employment

Parenting support programmes receive a major boost as part of a $75.5 million Supporting Families package in Budget 2004

The number of people receiving the statutory Unemployment Benefit has halved since 1999.

Paula Tyler has been appointed chief executive of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services.

The issues and challenges for agencies working in youth justice, to achieve better outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Address to a forum organised in association with the 'Once Were Warriors' stage musical.

A $56.9 million package of new and expanded initiatives in Budget 2004 will cement in the government’s commitment to provide all 15 to 19 year olds with a kick start to their working lives.

New Zealand’s falling unemployment is being welcomed by the government.

Comments at the launch of SKIP – Strategies with Kids, Information for Parents campaign. Capital E, Wellington.