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Children’s Act 2014

Strategy for improving children’s well-being and oranga tamariki action plan - Strategy for improving children’s well-being

6: Adoption of strategy

You could also call this:

"The government must make a plan to help kids have better lives and reduce child poverty."

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The Minister in charge must create a plan to help children. You want this plan to make life better for all kids. It should especially help children who need more support. The plan must also try to reduce poverty among children and make life easier for them. It should improve the well-being of specific groups of children that the government department is interested in.

The Minister can change this plan after talking to other Ministers who work with children. When making or changing the plan, the Minister can talk to other Ministers if they think it's a good idea.

The Minister's plan is to address several key areas, including improving the well-being of all children, helping those with greater needs, reducing child poverty, and improving the well-being of specific groups of children.

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Part 1Strategy for improving children’s well-being and oranga tamariki action plan
Strategy for improving children’s well-being

6Adoption of strategy

  1. The responsible Minister must, after consulting the children’s Ministers, adopt a strategy to address—

  2. improving the well-being of all children; and
    1. improving, as a particular focus, the well-being of children with greater needs; and
      1. reducing child poverty and mitigating impacts of child poverty and of socio-economic disadvantage experienced by children; and
        1. improving the well-being of the core populations of interest to the department.

          1. The responsible Minister may, after consulting with the children’s Ministers, change a strategy adopted under this section.

          2. Subsections (1) and (2) do not limit or affect consultation with any other Ministers that the responsible Minister considers it appropriate to consult on the strategy.

          Notes
          • Section 6: replaced, on , by section 8 of the Children's Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 58).