New Zealand: Political claptrap skirts real solutions to child abuse
Patricia Jane | August 11, 2011 at 01:35 pm
Decades of Govt reports and good intentions have done nothing to help vulnerable children
I had a bit of spare time earlier this week so I decided to browse through the Government’s Green Paper on Vulnerable Children – all 13,000-odd words of it. And having done so, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is just another way of making us think the Government is doing something when in fact it can’t make up its mind what to do.
It’s a procrastination ploy common to politicians of all stripes, and in this case it ensures that the festering sore of child poverty, deprivation, abuse and illiteracy will be conveniently shelved until well after the general election. (more…)
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