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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Social Workers Registration Board and Social Workers Disciplinary Tribunal - Social Workers Registration Board

101: Obtaining views of ethnic and cultural groups

You could also call this:

"Hearing from different cultures to make good decisions"

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The Social Workers Registration Board has to make sure it can hear from Pacific people at all times. You can think of this like having a special group of advisors who can share their thoughts and ideas. The Board also needs to be able to hear from other ethnic and cultural groups in New Zealand when it needs to.

The Board can do this by setting up special committees or groups to help it understand what these communities think. This way, the Board can make informed decisions that consider the views of different ethnic and cultural groups. It can set up these groups as needed, so it can hear from various communities at different times.

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101Obtaining views of ethnic and cultural groups

  1. The Board—

  2. must maintain mechanisms (for example, appointing advisory committees or forming separate caucuses) to ensure that there are at all times readily accessible to it the views of Pacific people; and
    1. must either maintain, or from time to time set in place as the need arises, mechanisms to ensure that it has access to the views of various ethnic and cultural groups in New Zealand.

      Notes
      • Section 101(b): amended, on , by section 15 of the Social Workers Registration Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 17).