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Children’s Act 2014

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

9: Content of plan

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When you are making an oranga tamariki action plan, you must include the steps that the chief executives of the children's agencies will take to work together. They will work to achieve the outcomes that the strategy sets out for the core populations of interest to the department. You can also include any other steps that the chief executives have decided to take to improve the well-being of those groups.

The chief executives must think about how the steps in the plan will help the core populations of interest. They must consider how to protect them from abuse and neglect, and how to improve their physical and mental health. They must also think about how to improve their education and training, and their participation in recreation and cultural activities.

The plan must include steps to strengthen the connection between children and their families, whānau, hapū, and iwi. It must also include steps to increase children's participation in decision making about them, and their contribution to society. You can find more information about core populations of interest to the department in section 5(1). The steps to improve the well-being of children must include participation by the children's agencies in assessment, planning, and decision making, and the provision of services to those children.

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

9Content of plan

  1. The oranga tamariki action plan (and any draft of it)—

  2. must set out the steps that the chief executives of the children’s agencies will take to work together to achieve the outcomes that the strategy sets out for the core populations of interest to the department; and
    1. may set out any other steps that the chief executives have decided that they will take to work together to improve the well-being of those groups.

      1. The chief executives must consider how the steps to be set out in the plan will promote the best interests of the core populations of interest to the department (having regard to the whole of their lives), including (without limitation) by—

      2. protecting them from abuse and neglect:
        1. improving their physical and mental health and their cultural and emotional well-being:
          1. improving their education and training and their participation in recreation and cultural activities:
            1. strengthening their connection to their families, whānau, hapū, and iwi, or other culturally recognised family group:
              1. increasing their participation in decision making about them, and their contribution to, and participation in, society:
                1. improving their social and economic well-being (for example, by reducing, or mitigating the impacts of, poverty).

                  1. The steps to improve the well-being of children specified in paragraph (b) of the definition in section 5(1) of core populations of interest to the department must include—

                  2. participation by the children’s agencies (and any contracted or related service providers, where appropriate) in assessment, planning, and decision making in relation to those children:
                    1. the provision of services (including any contracted or related services where appropriate) to those children.

                      Notes
                      • Section 9: replaced, on , by section 8 of the Children's Amendment Act 2018 (2018 No 58).