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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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NZ pretends recognition of the Rights of the Child
Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 12:41 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has examined the combined third and fourth periodic report of New Zealand on how New Zealand is implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child. More >>
Paid Parental Leave: Australia leaves us behind, again
Friday, 14 January 2011, 2:01 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Since 1st January 2011, financial support for Australian parents of newborns has become far more generous than that offered in New Zealand. Paid Parental Leave in Australia is paid at a higher level, over a longer time, and with broader coverage. ... More >>
Children bearing brunt of recession
Monday, 13 December 2010, 3:41 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is concerned by results from a recent study showing that children in low-income households, especially Maori and Pasifika children, appear to bearing the brunt of the recession. The group notes that while New Zealand continues ... More >>
At last, a focus on children in the welfare debate
Thursday, 9 December 2010, 1:44 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) applauds the focus on children contained in the just-published report of the Alternative Welfare Working Group. The report highlights the need to ensure all children are adequately provided for, whether parents have ... More >>
Can our kids get to a doctor when they need to?
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 12:56 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is calling on the government to take action to improve children’s after-hours access to doctors. The call comes as a paper published in the Journal of Primary Health Care highlights the importance of cost as a barrier ... More >>
CPAG applauds Labour’s focus on children
Monday, 18 October 2010, 4:29 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) applauds the Labour party's proposed policy "Putting Children First". Research shows that the first six years of life are the most important for children and New Zealand needs to invest more in these years.. More >>
Wealthy working group bad for children
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 10:03 am | Child Poverty Action Group
The release today of the Welfare Working Group's (WWG) issues paper is a missed opportunity, says Child Poverty Action Group. Instead of offering up some constructive ways to make welfare relevant in the 21st century, it has manufactured a crisis that doesn't ... More >>
Remove discrimination, not your shoes Minister!
Friday, 30 July 2010, 1:56 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has congratulated Paula Bennett on finally acknowledging New Zealand’s high rates of child poverty. But according to CPAG spokesperson Dr Claire Dale “If The Minister really cared about children going without shoes in ... More >>
What Work Counts? Report questions work-first
Thursday, 29 July 2010, 11:53 am | Child Poverty Action Group
A new report from Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) warns that the government’s single minded focus on parents’ work status sidelines the needs of children. More >>
Children Continue To Be Left Behind
Monday, 7 June 2010, 1:09 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is again urging the government to put children at the centre of its policies, in the light of two new reports highlighting many New Zealand children’s poor health and housing. More >>
Inequity is costly
Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 5:31 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) applauds the release of the Green Party manifesto Mind the Gap . More >>
Bennett dreams up a nightmare for disadvantaged
Wednesday, 24 March 2010, 9:55 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Minister of Social Development Paula Bennett's telling sole parents “the dream is over” will be a nightmare for thousands of children, says Child Poverty Action Group. The Minister has signalled that 43,000 sole parents of school age children ... More >>
Child Poverty Action Group Supports Beaumont Bill
Friday, 12 March 2010, 5:20 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG totally supports Carol Beaumont’s bill to regulate fringe lenders. (The Credit Finances (Responsible Lending) Bill). More >>
Forget Tax Cuts for the Rich, Focus On Poverty
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:30 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group calls on the government to recognise the growing underclass identified by the Salvation Army in its latest report “The Road to Recovery”. More >>
Experts warn on children’s health
Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 1:42 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is urging the government to heed the findings of health researchers who have highlighted the dangers of worsening children's health in the recession. The Children's Social Health Monitor, compiled by childrens health ... More >>
Health cuts make children biggest losers
Friday, 20 November 2009, 9:28 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Children's advocates Child Poverty Action Group are alarmed at indications that health spending will be cut even further next year. More >>
New Zealand's shameful neglect of children
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 2:27 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
CHILD POVERTY ACTION GROUP. CPAG endorses the views of New Zealand's leading paeditricians who have highlighted New Zealand's shameful neglect of children. Last night Close-up presented a shocking report on the cost of after-hours health ... More >>
Don’t make children the victims of the recession
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 9:56 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says the ReStart package has been a puny response to the effects of the recession. Whatever the intention of the package, it has not protected children. More >>
World Pneumonia Day 2 November 2009
Monday, 2 November 2009, 9:41 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Despite being an industrialised country, New Zealand has worse rates of pneumonia amongst children than other OECD countries. Dr Cameron Grant, pneumonia expert and Associate Professor in Paediatrics at Starship Children’s Hospital, reports that ... More >>
Social Report shows child poverty on the rise
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 10:24 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says that despite the positive spin in the Ministry of Social Development’s 2009 Social Report, all is far from rosy. “The increase in child poverty is shocking and should raise all kinds of questions about our policies ... More >>
