Children’s Act 2014

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

7: Content of strategy

You could also call this:

"What the plan to help kids must include"

The strategy for improving children's well-being must include the outcomes you want to achieve. You can find these outcomes in section 6(1)(a), (b), and (d) and section 6(1)(c), which is about reducing child poverty. The strategy must also say how you will measure if you are achieving these outcomes.

The strategy must show how you will measure the outcomes, including how you will look at the differences for children in poverty and children who are disadvantaged. You must also say what policies the Government has already put in place to achieve the well-being outcomes and what steps you have taken to see if these policies are working. The strategy must include what policies the Government plans to implement to achieve the outcomes and how you will evaluate these policies.

The strategy must look at how Government policies will affect children, including policies to reduce child poverty and help children who are disadvantaged. You must think about how these policies might change the economy and how outside economic changes might affect the policies. The strategy must also consider how economic changes will affect the policies and how outside changes might impact them.

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6E: Publication and status of strategy, or

"Where to find the plan to help keep kids safe and well"

7A: Duty to review strategy, or

"The Minister must regularly check the plan to help kids have better lives."

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

7Content of strategy

The strategy must include outcomes sought—
under section 6(1)(a), (b), and (d); and
in particular, under section 6(1)(c) (which relates to reducing child poverty and mitigating impacts of child poverty and of socio-economic disadvantage).

The strategy must indicate—
the extent to which the outcomes included in the strategy are measurable:
how the measurable outcomes will be measured, including by analysing disparities of outcome for—
1. children in poverty; and
2. children who, compared with all children, are children with socio-economic disadvantage:
if 1 or more earlier strategies have been adopted under section 6, the policies that the Government has implemented, after the adoption of the last of those earlier strategies, to achieve the well-being outcomes sought by the last of those strategies, and any steps that the Government has taken to evaluate the effectiveness of those policies:
the policies that the Government intends to implement, after the adoption of the strategy, to achieve the outcomes sought by that strategy, and any steps that the Government intends to take to evaluate the effectiveness of those policies.

The strategy must include an assessment of the likely effect of Government policies whose aim is or includes all or any of the following:
reducing child poverty:
mitigating impacts of child poverty or of socio-economic disadvantage experienced by children.

The assessment required by subsection (3) must address the following matters:
economic changes likely to arise from the implementation of the policies:
how the impact of the policies may be affected by any economic changes external to the policies.

Notes

Section 7: replaced, on 21 December 2018, by section 8 of the Children's Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 58).