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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

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.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Kiwi music accounts for 20 per cent of music played on commercial radio, meeting a Labour-led government's pledge well ahead of the December 2006 deadline

  • Steve Maharey
  • Broadcasting

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Young New Zealanders are welcoming the increase in local content on our television screens.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Broadcasting

The latest Social Report shows solid progress on social issues

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

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.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

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.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

New Zealand's strength in agricultural and horticultural research provide major opportunities to develop new products for emerging markets such as China.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Research, Science and Technology

The government has delivered on its goal of providing 1,000 more state homes in the past year

  • Steve Maharey
  • Housing

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Housing New Zealand and Auckland City Council will work together to ensure developments in Glen Innes, and across Auckland, are in line with the best interests of the community.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Housing

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Thousands more New Zealanders are now eligible for help with buying their first home.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Housing

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

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

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Burning through more than 10,000 safety pins, 8,500 litres of hair spray and a small mountain of glitter, talented young Kiwis have taken to the stage in huge numbers as part of Stage Challenge 2005.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Youth Affairs

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
  • Social Development and Employment

The government remains committed to the revitalisation of state housing in New Zealand.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Housing

Doubling the number of Fulbright Scholarships is a step forward in the government's efforts to support the future leaders of New Zealand science.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Research, Science and Technology

A collaboration between award-winning scientist Paul Callaghan and poet Bill Manhire is among four new projects funded through the government's $700,000 Smash Palace Fund.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Research, Science and Technology