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Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is an independent, registered charity founded in 1994 who work to eliminate child poverty in New Zealand through research, education and advocacy.
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) strives to achieve the elimination of child poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand. We work to provide evidence-based research about the causes and effects of poverty on children and their families, and to inform the public, policy makers, media and politicians of the changes to policy needed to reduce child poverty.
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Children Languishing In Poverty Forgotten In Government Policies, Says CPAG
Thursday, 23 March 2023, 1:19 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Latest figures measuring child poverty rates in Aotearoa New Zealand are a sad indictment on the country with no real improvement in policy that could turn things around, according to Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), the leading voice on the issue. StatsNZ ... More >>
Welfare Rises In Line With Inflation Are Welcome But Families Will Still Be Treading Water, CPAG Warns
Monday, 13 March 2023, 7:54 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
The government’s plans to increase benefits in line with sky rocketing inflation will help families struggling to provide the essentials for their children, according to Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG). However, CPAG says this goes only a small way ... More >>
National’s Childcare Tax Credit Lacks Vision, Doesn’t Put Children At The Heart Of The Policy
Monday, 6 March 2023, 2:30 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
National’s FamilyBoost policy fails to address a core problem within New Zealand’s early childhood education sector - that profit is a driving force for many centres, according to Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG). National has unveiled a plan to give ... More >>
Not Working For Families
Thursday, 26 January 2023, 1:14 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG has long thought that Working for Families (WFF) needed to be renamed to put children at its centre, not work. In a letter to the editor today (26 January) Chris Brown of Tauranga came up with a title that accurately reflected the reality of low ... More >>
Early Education A Public Good
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 2:17 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Early childhood education is a public good, rather than an investment opportunity for the private sector, says Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG). CPAG regards early childhood education as one way of mitigating child poverty in Aotearoa. More high-quality, ... More >>
CPAG On The Achievements Of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Following Her Resignation
Thursday, 19 January 2023, 7:32 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) acknowledges the work that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has done to put child poverty on the political agenda. As the first Minister for Child Poverty Reduction, she has advocated for children over challenging ... More >>
Christmas Wishes For A More Generous New Year
Thursday, 22 December 2022, 12:00 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
New Zealand can no longer pretend we are looking after all our children well. This Christmas, as foodbanks struggle with unprecedented demand assisted by worn-out volunteers against a backdrop of a soaring cost of living and the Covid threat, it is clear ... More >>
Give Mokopuna Their Childhood Back
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 11:43 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Some modest advances in child poverty reduction have been made since the passing of the Child Poverty Reduction Act in 2018, but rangatahi (youth) with lived experience of poverty say it’s time for immediate action. At the launch of ... More >>
A Fairer Society For All
Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 10:59 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Children are bearing the brunt of entrenched inequality in New Zealand. Bryan Bruce’s documentary’s Inside Child Poverty Revisited shown last night on TV3 shows that while there have been some improvements in the 11 years since his first documentary ... More >>
Ministry Of Social Development (MSD) Child Poverty Report 2022 Highlights Need To Support Struggling Families
Friday, 7 October 2022, 10:45 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) welcomes the findings in the latest MSD Child Poverty Report showing that material hardship rates for many children had improved between 2013-21, thanks to government measures, rising employment rates, improving ... More >>
Petition To Remove Prescription Charges For Community Service Card Holders
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 9:33 am | Child Poverty Action Group
United Community Action Network New Zealand (UCANNZ) and Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) have launched a petition to remove prescription charges for low-income households. https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/petitions/document/PET_126013/petition-of-nikki-turner-on-behalf-of-united-community ... More >>
Overhaul Of Working For Families Has Wide Support
Monday, 3 October 2022, 1:06 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is pleased a large number of submissions to the Working for Families' (WFF) review recognized WFF’s failings for children and validates CPAG’s campaign for a thorough overhaul of the system. The 585 survey responses, ... More >>
Social Investment Is A Problem Not A Solution
Monday, 1 August 2022, 4:37 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Social investment has been developed and promoted as ‘the solution’ to a range of social issues and problems. In brief, it is based on targeting individuals/families who have been identified through the use of administrative data as facing problems ... More >>
Preventable, Avoidable Diseases Are Still Putting Our Most Vulnerable Children In Hospital
Wednesday, 22 June 2022, 6:35 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Cure Kids’ annual State of Child Health Report released today confirmed very high rates of costly, yet often preventable, diseases in Aotearoa. Yet as a country we could protect children from these diseases with better policies. "Poor living ... More >>
Slow Down Select Committee - Let’s Hear What Children Have To Say About The Bill That Has An Impact On Their Lives.
Friday, 17 June 2022, 3:28 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group commends the Select Committee’s recommendation to keep the crucial role of the Children’s Commissioner but is concerned that the process got this far. The independence of the Commissioner is critical if that role is to ... More >>
Government Response To Affordable Rental Housing Crisis Is Not Good Enough
Friday, 10 June 2022, 11:58 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Recently released figures on demand for and supply of public housing continue to demonstrate the inadequacy of Government’s housing responses says the Child Poverty Action Group. "The Government has been responding to our chronic shortage of ... More >>
No ‘Secure Future’ For Children In Poverty This Budget
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 8:24 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Despite some positive steps, this year’s Budget represents a failed opportunity to bravely address child poverty, says the Child Poverty Action Group. We all want to see children thrive, yet families locked into poverty will not see any relief ... More >>
Government Needs To Step Up To Address Child Poverty Ahead Of Budget 2022
Monday, 16 May 2022, 7:40 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Professor Innes Asher says it’s time for the government to take bigger steps to address child poverty. Families want their children to thrive but those locked in severe poverty cannot. Speaking on Breakfast TV this morning Professor Asher calls ... More >>
More Than An Inflation Adjusted Catch-up To Working For Families Needed To Shift Dial On Child Poverty
Friday, 1 April 2022, 7:09 am | Child Poverty Action Group
The Working for Families package is an important source of income for the support of children in low-income families, but its serious shortfalls need fixing. Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says today’s Working for Families (WFF) increases are ... More >>
Income Support Changes Fall Short Of What Struggling Households Need - New Research From Fairer Future Collaboration
Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 6:51 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Figures released today by the Fairer Future collaboration show that increases to benefits on 1 April will still leave families locked in poverty. Spokesperson for the Fairer Future collaboration, Brooke Stanley Pao, says it’s time for the Government ... More >>
