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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 new code of conduct for social workers sets out minimum professional standards of behaviour, integrity and conduct.

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

Work and Income case managers will be trained to better identify and support families affected by violence.

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

A report has been released on Child. Youth and Family’s handling of a case where children were placed in the care of an approved caregiver alleged to have subsequently sexually abused them.

Associate Social Development and Employment Minister Rick Barker and Corrections Minister Paul Swain today announced details of the first stage of the strategy to get more released prisoners into work.

Associate Social Development and Employment Minister Rick Barker and Corrections Minister Paul Swain today announced details of the first stage of the strategy to get more released prisoners into work.

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.

A 78 per cent reduction in Child, Youth and Family’s unallocated cases is cause for celebration.

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

The result is a stunning achievement for the Pacific community Social Development and Employment Minister Steve Maharey and Associate Social Development Minister Taito Phillip Field said today.

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.