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

6B: Policy-related principles Minister must have regard to before strategy adopted or changed

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"Minister must consider important principles when making plans to help children"

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When the Minister is creating or changing a strategy to improve children's well-being under section 6, they must think about some important principles. You need to know that these principles are about making sure policies are based on evidence that they will work. The Minister must also think about how to stop bad things from happening to children, or fix them quickly if they do happen.

The Minister must also consider evaluating whether the Government's policies are effective. In this case, policies refer to what the Government is doing or plans to do to achieve the goals of the strategy. The Minister has to think about these principles to make good decisions about the strategy to improve children's well-being.

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

6BPolicy-related principles Minister must have regard to before strategy adopted or changed

  1. Before adopting a strategy, or changing a strategy adopted, under section 6, the responsible Minister must have regard to the following policy-related principles:

  2. policies should be informed by evidence about their expected effectiveness in achieving the social and economic outcomes sought by the strategy:
    1. policies should prevent or minimise negative social outcomes and, if they do occur, should address them as early as possible:
      1. the Government should evaluate the effectiveness of policies.

        1. In this section, policies means policies implemented, or to be implemented, by the Government to achieve the outcomes sought by the strategy.

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