More details about abuse child care facilities have come to light
More details about abuse child care facilities have come to light
7 July 2021
The Ministry for Children's care and protection unit in Christchurch, Te Oranga, has closed down after footage was aired of boys being abused by staff.
Now, publicly reported figures from Oranga Tamariki show there's been 40 instances of children being harmed in the past two-and-a-half years.
Auckland University counselling expert Ian Hyslop says these facilities need to be funded, staffed and monitored far more carefully.
He says we need higher staff ratios, better multi-disciplinary services for children and less of a punishment-by-incarceration based approach.
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