Election year:
2023
Political party:
New Zealand First
Policy:
Children and Youth
- Begin a nationwide public conversation on the development of a national strategy to address Family and Sexual Violence.
- Develop solutions through the Community and Volunteer Sector to move from crisis intervention to prevention and early intervention.
- Break down the silos of funding and using the Matua Whangai model empowering local community ‘joint ventures’ to identify what success looks like and the feasibility to decide how they will achieve it.
- Expand on access to counselling for all school aged children and their families.
- Investigate the funding of nutritionist advice in GP offices for those families with extra needs.
- Investigate the establishment of ‘KiwiSaver at Birth’ to encourage birth registration and long term saving habits.
- Review the practicality of a ‘Universal Family Benefit’ to acknowledge and support families into their first home and to care for their children.
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