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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 25]
Child Poverty Action asks Peter Dunne to solve child poverty
Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 3:29 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
United Future MP Peter Dunne should now reveal the concrete steps he would take to address child poverty in New Zealand. Child Poverty Action Group says an obvious way to alleviate child poverty is to give more family assistance to families on benefits, ... More >>
Child-related payments to caregivers exclude 230,000
Sunday, 4 November 2012, 5:45 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Increasing numbers of New Zealanders are alarmed about the disgraceful level of child poverty in this country. Child Poverty Action Group believes private charity cannot fix this problem and major changes to government policy are needed. More >>
Children’s future in Dunne’s hands
Thursday, 1 November 2012, 2:21 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
If family values are at the heart of United Future’s policies, Child Poverty Action Group calls on MP Peter Dunne to support the Greens’ Private Member’s Income Tax (Universalisation of In-work Tax Credit) Amendment Bill when it is further debated ... More >>
Poverty debate clouded by government misinformation
Friday, 31 August 2012, 4:07 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says any debate on how we support low income families must be based on a comprehensive and accurate understanding of current policy. CPAG supports the Expert Group on Poverty’s call for a debate on how we support low ... More >>
Food in schools vital for poorest children
Friday, 31 August 2012, 11:07 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is urging the government to fund food in schools for children in deciles one and two. More >>
Charity Auction - Three original Tom Scott cartoons
Friday, 24 August 2012, 3:39 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
24 August 2012: News from CPAG Charity Auction - Three original Tom Scott cartoons from the Inside Child Poverty documentary! View the auction and make your bid at: http://www.trademe.co.nz/art/drawings/auction-506866372.htm Child Poverty Action ... More >>
Time for action: the child poverty figures are a disgrace
Friday, 24 August 2012, 10:18 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says the Ministry of Social Development’s latest household income report confirms the urgent need for attention to incomes and housing for families with children. More >>
Action Plan won’t deliver for Children
Thursday, 23 August 2012, 1:59 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has dismissed the government’s Children Results Action Plan to support vulnerable children as a public relations exercise. While improving specific aspects of children’s health and access to early childhood education ... More >>
Bill a practical and just way to address child poverty
Friday, 17 August 2012, 1:17 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is calling on all parliamentary parties to support the Greens’ Private Member’s Bill, which would boost the incomes of New Zealand’s poorest families and reduce child poverty. Green MP Catherine Delahunty’s Income ... More >>
Submissions show Minister must deal with poverty
Thursday, 16 August 2012, 10:10 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has welcomed the release of the summary of submissions to the government's Green Paper on Vulnerable Children. The great number of submissions shows New Zealanders are passionate about the care and protection of children. More >>
Protecting families in New Zealand? Tell the truth, Bill
Thursday, 2 August 2012, 12:02 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says the government is fudging what is really happening to family assistance. Rather than giving income security to families through difficult times as it claims, the government is actually achieving a real reduction in family ... More >>
NZ must address the systemic causes of child poverty
Monday, 30 July 2012, 10:46 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says New Zealand must address the systemic causes of child poverty as evidence builds that child poverty is at its worst for 30 years. More >>
Welfare Reforms Perpetuate Discrimination
Monday, 23 July 2012, 9:26 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says the Government’s latest welfare reforms are the worst example of welfare policy it has seen for decades. More >>
CPAG Granted Leave To Appeal High Court Decision
Friday, 20 July 2012, 4:20 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
20 July 2012: News from CPAG CPAG Granted Leave To Appeal High Court Decision On Discrimination Claim Against Children Of Beneficiaries The Child Poverty Action Group is very pleased the Court of Appeal has today granted leave to appeal against the ... More >>
Poverty The Biggest Barrier To Children Thriving
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 4:25 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group has backed the call by UNICEF and other child advocates for an Action Plan for Children. The call comes as the government prepares its White Paper on vulnerable children, which CPAG and others fear will seek to cut some children’s ... More >>
Zero Fees For Under-Sixes In Wellington A Positive Step
Friday, 29 June 2012, 3:16 pm | CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group welcomes news that all primary health care services are now free for children under six in the Wellington region. More >>
Extra funding for budgeting services a drop in the ocean
Friday, 22 June 2012, 3:21 pm | CPAG
Child Poverty Action Group says the paltry extra funding for budgeting services announced this week will do little to relieve pressure on overstretched community groups. CPAG has noted with dismay that some budgeting services are having to lay off staff. More >>
Heads out of the sand New Zealand
Thursday, 31 May 2012, 6:46 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says New Zealand must set a national target to reduce child poverty, act to move towards that target and improve its monitoring and reporting on the well-being of children. More >>
Government oblivious to social time bomb of stagnation
Tuesday, 29 May 2012, 11:46 am | Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG is alarmed that the 2012 budget does not acknowledge the plight of many children and families. There are no words of empathy for struggling families, unlike in the Australian budget speech which stated: “We understand the pressures Australians ... More >>
“Smoke and mirrors” Budget paints a bleak outlook
Friday, 25 May 2012, 11:13 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Budget 2012 is a smoke and mirrors budget which paints a bleak outlook for children and the economy, a post-Budget breakfast forum in Wellington was told today. More >>
