Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast Merepeka Taukawa-Tait: Whanau Ora calls for more government funding to stop children from dying
Feb 12, 2020
11:22
A police officer's reflecting on his 30 years of policing after seeing a young boy hospitalised with some of the worst injuries he's ever seen.
The four-year-old was injured in Flaxmere's Ramsey Court, near Hastings, on January 29, and remains in Starship Hospital in a serious condition.
Detective Inspector Mike Foster is thankful he doesn't often see children so severely injured and child abuse is too prevalent in New Zealand, and cases like this are tragic.
Add to this, the Salvation Army State of the Nation Report which confirms the number children still being hurt by the very people who should be protecting them, is still appalling.
The number of serious assaults on children resulting in serious injury has increased forty per cent over the past four years.
Whanau Ora's leading advocate for women's and children's rights, Merepeka Taukawa-Tait, told Kerre McIvor Jacinda Ardern does care about vulnerable Kiwi children, but the Government must do more.
"If we don't do better and do more and get extra resources to do more, our children continue to die."
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The four-year-old was injured in Flaxmere's Ramsey Court, near Hastings, on January 29, and remains in Starship Hospital in a serious condition.
Detective Inspector Mike Foster is thankful he doesn't often see children so severely injured and child abuse is too prevalent in New Zealand, and cases like this are tragic.
Add to this, the Salvation Army State of the Nation Report which confirms the number children still being hurt by the very people who should be protecting them, is still appalling.
The number of serious assaults on children resulting in serious injury has increased forty per cent over the past four years.
Whanau Ora's leading advocate for women's and children's rights, Merepeka Taukawa-Tait, told Kerre McIvor Jacinda Ardern does care about vulnerable Kiwi children, but the Government must do more.
"If we don't do better and do more and get extra resources to do more, our children continue to die."
LISTEN ABOVE
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