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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.
Child Poverty Action Group - Latest News [Page 22]
Children still missing out after quakes
Friday, 7 March 2014, 9:37 am | Child Poverty Action Group
“Children in Christchurch are missing out on the conditions they need to grow into healthy adults,” says the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG). More >>
Revised figures show government policies have failed poorest
Friday, 28 February 2014, 3:54 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says new figures from Statistics New Zealand and Treasury show the impact of the global financial crisis has been much more severe for poor children than previously believed. More >>
Minimum pay rise only part of the picture for families
Wednesday, 26 February 2014, 5:20 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the rise in the minimum wage but says sensible and fair adjustments to family income assistance are also needed. More >>
Bold policies needed to tackle child poverty
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 1:36 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group applauds the Salvation Army's strong message to political parties in election year that New Zealand must tackle the root causes of child poverty with bold policies. More >>
Best Start Policy a good start for children
Monday, 27 January 2014, 5:35 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
27 Jan 2014: Labour's Best Start proposal announced today represents a very significant step forward. CPAG welcomes the acknowledgement that New Zealand doesn't want to be a World Vision society where poor children get their basics from charity. CPAG ... More >>
Education changes ignore underlying issue of poverty
Friday, 24 January 2014, 1:00 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes extra funding targeted towards improving educational achievement but says policy changes announced yesterday will make only a small impact. More >>
Child Poverty Monitor highlights importance of family income
Monday, 9 December 2013, 12:21 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes the inaugural Child Poverty Monitor and congratulates the Office of the Children's Commissioner, the JR McKenzie Trust and the University of Otago's NZ Child and Youth Epidemiology Service. The Monitor puts all the known ... More >>
Shocking poverty causing shocking diseases in our children
Monday, 9 December 2013, 9:01 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group's spokesperson Professor Innes Asher says, "The country's first Child Poverty Monitor shows shocking poverty causing shocking diseases in our children, and this can change if we want to." The Monitor shows a steady ... More >>
NZ's first microfinance initiative scoops top prize
Friday, 22 November 2013, 5:42 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Chief architect of the Kiwibank /Nga Tangata Microfinance Trust, CPAG's Dr Claire Dale is elated at picking up the Supreme award at the NZI National Sustainable Business Network Awards held yesterday. More >>
CPAG backs Health Committees recommendations
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 2:19 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes recommendations by a Health Committees report to improve children's health and prevent child abuse. CPAG spokesperson Associate Professor Nikki Turner says recommendations by a Health Committees report could signal ... More >>
CPAG backs Salvation Army Housing report
Friday, 15 November 2013, 2:07 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says Salvation Army Housing Report 'Give Me Shelter' highlights the struggle of vulnerable families. CPAG spokesperson Associate Professor Mike O'Brien agreed with the report's findings that called for a new approach to housing to help ... More >>
Group welcomes first reading of Mana's Feed the Kids Bill
Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 8:53 am | Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG spokesperson Associate Professor Mike O'Brien is encouraging all parties to support the Bill through to Select Committee. More >>
Crucial for Government to monitor and measure child poverty
Friday, 8 November 2013, 10:26 am | Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG spokesperson Associate Professor Nikki Turner says it is commendable the government has programmes in place such as the Rheumatic Fever Prevention Programme to help tackle aspects of child poverty. More >>
Children of beneficiary parents losing ground
Monday, 21 October 2013, 7:20 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says children of beneficiary parents losing ground under the new welfare reforms. More >>
CPAG says benefit sanctions need monitoring.
Monday, 21 October 2013, 7:18 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group's latest research backgrounder - Benefit sanctions: Creating an invisible underclass - shows monitoring systems are lacking and creating confusion over the numbers sanctioned, in particular parents of children. More >>
'Low trust' rules treat beneficiaries as 2nd class citizens
Tuesday, 15 October 2013, 3:57 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group spokesperson Associate Professor Mike O'Brien says the latest measures to punish welfare fraudsters demonizes all beneficiaries and serves only to add further stigma to individuals and families who require government support. More >>
Supreme Court no route to Justice for 230,000 NZ children
Monday, 30 September 2013, 9:36 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group has decided not to pursue its long-running human rights case in the Supreme Court but will continue to battle for the rights of New Zealand's poorest children. More >>
CPAG celebrates 75th birthday of Social Security Act 1938
Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 2:35 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group and Holy Trinity Cathedral held a joint celebration on Monday night to draw attention to the significance of the Social Security Act that Michael Joseph Savage introduced 75 years ago. More >>
CPAG celebrate the birth of the welfare state
Wednesday, 11 September 2013, 1:00 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group spokesperson Alan Johnson says Parnell's Holy Trinity Cathedral would fill to the brim many, many times over with the number of New Zealand children who live in poverty. More >>
"Government discriminates against low-income children"
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 9:38 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group sought a declaration from the Court of Appeal that the In Work Tax Credit, worth at least $60 a week for low income families, unjustifiably discriminates by leaving out families on benefits. While agreeing that there is discrimination, ... More >>
