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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 29]
Prioritising better healthcare for young children
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 2:07 pm | CPAG
Manaia Health PHO has just announced that they will be subsidising after hours and weekend care for all children under 6. The cost per visit will drop from $15 to $5. More >>
OECD report a shocker, says Child Poverty Group
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 10:40 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has welcomed the OECD’s latest report on children’s wellbeing, but says the picture it paints of New Zealand children is shocking. The report, Doing Better for Children, is a comprehensive cross-country comparison of ... More >>
A rich life for all children
Friday, 21 August 2009, 5:13 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG strongly endorses the New Zealand Psychological Society’s selection of Sue Bradford as the recipient of their “Public Award”. Sue Bradford has done outstanding work to highlight the unpalatable facts about child poverty in New Zealand. CPAG ... More >>
Media Reoprts On Benefit Levels
Monday, 3 August 2009, 2:07 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Children’s advocates have expressed concern about media reports suggesting that sole parents are better off now than they were in 1993 when the Minister of Social Development, Paula Bennett, was receiving a benefit. The figures in the Ministry ... More >>
Child Poverty Action Group Alarmed By Report
Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 2:05 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is alarmed at a government report showing that in 2008 one in six New Zealand children still lived in a household below the very lowest poverty lines. The Ministry Of Social Development's latest Households Incomes Report ... More >>
Child advocates welcome Vulnerability Report
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 4:10 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group has welcomed the release of the first Vulnerability Report from the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services. The Report pulls together a range of indicators from public and private sources to monitor the impact of the ... More >>
Positive healthy policies for schoolchildren
Tuesday, 7 July 2009, 10:47 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group has added its voice to those urging the Minister of Health, Tony Ryall to keep the Fruit in Schools programme running beyond the end of the year. The programme runs in 500 low-decile schools and provides fruit to 100,000 children ... More >>
Children’s needs must come first, say advocates
Friday, 26 June 2009, 3:07 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is asking the government to put children at the centre of its policies as unemployment puts greater stress on families. More >>
Urgent action needed on child poverty in budget
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 9:21 am | Child Poverty Action Group
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is urging the Government to give children the attention they deserve in this year’s Budget. More >>
Rankin appointment alarming - Child Poverty Group
Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 9:08 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is alarmed at the appointment of Christine Rankin to the Families Commission. The group’s economic spokesperson Dr Susan St John said: “At a time of recession is biting and deepening poverty of many families in New Zealand, ... More >>
Children’s advocates welcome report
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 9:55 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action group has welcomed the new Families Commission report that emphasises the importance of caring and nurturing required for all children to meet their potential. More >>
Left out again
Friday, 17 April 2009, 4:30 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group is disappointed by reports that National's promise to increase the amount beneficiaries can earn appears to have been shelved. At present someone on a benefit can earn up to $80 per week without being penalised. Prior to ... More >>
John Key on wrong track
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 3:37 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
The PM wants the better-off to donate their tax cuts to charity? Surely at this stage in the economic cycle a more certain and equitable way of addressing the profound unfairness of tax cuts for those on higher income should be found. More >>
Govt should reinstate healthy food in schools
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 1:19 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has called on the government to reconsider its decision to allow schools to sell junk food. More >>
CPAG seeks to meet ministers following decision
Friday, 19 December 2008, 11:19 am | Child Poverty Action Group
The Child Poverty Action Group is seeking a meeting with the Government following a decision released today by the Human Rights Review Tribunal that the In-Work Tax Credit (IWTC) discriminates against some 200,000 of the most deprived children in ... More >>
Redundancy package needs a rethink
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 5:07 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group says National’s package extending the In-Work Tax Credit to families where earners are made redundant is an admission that families are unable to meet basic costs under the present system. More >>
Time for fairer benefits: children’s advocatates
Thursday, 30 October 2008, 5:27 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group has welcomed Labour and National’s new-found commitment to ensuring adequate support for the unemployed. More >>
Pledge to end child poverty welcomed by advocates
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 9:45 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) commends the Maori Party for putting children at the forefront of their policies, and pledging to end child poverty by 2020. More >>
Child advocates say work-for-dole a failed policy
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 9:23 am | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) NZ has expressed disappointment at the National party's plans to resurrect work-for-the-dole requirements for domestic purposes beneficiaries. More >>
CPAG welcomes plan of action on child poverty
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 1:36 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group has welcomed today’s report from the Children’s Commissioner which urges the government to adopt a sustained, coordinated plan of action to end child poverty in New Zealand. More >>
