Government housing package “ignores elephant in the room”
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
25 March 2021
The Government’s housing package announced this week doesn’t do enough for families in grave housing stress, nor...
Latest child poverty stats a wake-up call
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
25 February 2020
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says the latest child poverty statistics are a wake-up call and we...
Tenancy protection lifts wellbeing for vulnerable families
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
06 August 2020
Whānau and families will sleep better at night knowing their homes can’t be taken away from them...
How can we ask families to stock up for a week when they don’t...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
A range of Cabinet Ministers have bee encouraging us all to stock up on supplies so that they will...
Press Release: NGOs and campaign groups say ‘people are hurting’ after govt inaction on...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
03 May 2021
A member of the Government’s own advisory group on welfare, an anti-poverty campaigner, and a disability advocate...
Wage increases outpace income support for children
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
05 May 2021
Families in low-paid work with three children would have received up to $1900 more over the last...
Government leaves disadvantaged children to face “most severe” COVID-19 effects
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
15 December 2020
Children and their families are likely to face “significant and wide-ranging” negative effects from COVID-19, according to...
Government report shows children made to suffer unnecessarily
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
13 May 2021
Grim reading: that’s the Child Poverty Action Group’s assessment of the Child Poverty Related Indicators Report released...
CPAG commends removal of the Subsequent Child Policy, says it’s the right thing for...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
30 September 2021
The Child Poverty Action Group is today commending the Government’s decision to remove the Subsequent Child Policy, calling it...
Govt yet to fully implement a single key WEAG recommendation three years on: new...
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
08 December 2021
None of the 42 key recommendations of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) have been fully implemented...
Government response to lockdown poverty “inadequate” and “sluggish”
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
03 September 2021
Child Poverty Action Group is deeply concerned the Minister of Finance this week refused to signal what,...
Bold policy changes needed urgently to shift stagnant child poverty rates
Source: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
24 February 2022
New statistics out today show very limited progress towards lifting children out of poverty, three years on...
