The Government’s response to lockdown hardship has piecemeal and inadequate compared to 2020. Why?
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Since August, the Government’s response to lockdown hardship has been more piecemeal and inadequate than it was last year....
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes moves to protect children through folic acid fortification
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
09 July 2021
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the announcement by Food Safety Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall, that...
Govt hardship announcement ignores children and whānau with the greatest needs
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
22 October 2021
Desperate children have been excluded from today’s Government announcement on additional hardship assistance, which will do nothing...
covid interviews
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 April 2021
Below is a small selection of insights from people receiving benefits in the new report: Income Support in the wake...
Social Insurance proposal would likely bake-in existing inequities and drive inequality, says anti-poverty organisation
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
02 February 2022
A social unemployment insurance (SUI) scheme is likely to be regressive and would bake-in existing inequities in...
Poverty burden for children increased due to Government neglect – new report
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
26 July 2021
Poverty, inequity, homelessness and food insecurity are among the burdens which increased for tamariki Māori and other...
Outgoing Children’s Commissioner says we must do more
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
28 October 2021
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes Judge Andrew Becroft’s impassioned speech yesterday in which he calls for a...
“I don’t use my oven” – Life without a liveable income
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
20 April 2021
Below is a small selection of insights from people receiving benefits in the new report: Income Support in the wake...
CPAG and AAAP Call for Extension of Covid Support for NZ’s Most Financially Vulnerable
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
02 September 2020
Incomes are scheduled to be cut by up to $63 a week for many of New Zealand’s...
Progress on welfare reform “unjustifiably slow”
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
30 November 2020
Child advocates are dismayed by the lack of progress in welfare reform since government-appointed experts recommended a...
Latest jump in weekly benefit numbers highest since first lockdown
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
06 September 2021
The current lockdown has triggered the largest weekly increase in benefit recipient numbers since the first lockdown...
A response to The Great Divide
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
This Winter, North & South published “The Great Divide“, by Rebecca Macfie, looking at the causes and effects of...
