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Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System Act 2022

Oversight of Oranga Tamariki system - Monitoring of Oranga Tamariki system - Monitor’s objectives, monitoring function, duties, and powers

13: Monitor’s objectives

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"The Monitor's job is to check the Oranga Tamariki system is working fairly for you and your family."

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The Monitor's job is to check how well the Oranga Tamariki system is working for you and your family. They want to make sure the system supports your rights and well-being. The Monitor also checks if the people in charge are using their powers fairly and consistently, as stated in the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989.

The Monitor's goals include helping you and your family trust the Oranga Tamariki system, finding areas where they can improve, and making sure they understand how the system works. They also want to help the people in charge make good decisions.

When the Monitor is planning their work, they must think about how to help children and young people, especially Māori children and young people, have better outcomes. They must listen to what you and your family have to say about the Oranga Tamariki system, and make sure your views are taken into account. The Monitor works with other services that help children and young people, like those that try to prevent them from getting into trouble or needing care and protection.

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Monitoring of Oranga Tamariki system: Monitor’s objectives, monitoring function, duties, and powers

13Monitor’s objectives

  1. The objectives of the Monitor are to carry out objective, impartial, and evidence-based monitoring, and provide advice in order to—

  2. assess the extent to which the Oranga Tamariki system and its interface with other systems support the rights, interests, and well-being of children, young people, and their families and whānau who are receiving, or have previously received, services or support through the Oranga Tamariki system:
    1. assess whether the coercive powers exercised under the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 are being exercised appropriately and consistently:
      1. support public trust and confidence in the Oranga Tamariki system:
        1. identify areas of high performance and areas for improvement in relation to the chief executive of Oranga Tamariki and approved providers to encourage them to work towards continuous improvement:
          1. support an understanding of specific aspects of the Oranga Tamariki system and its interface with other systems:
            1. support informed decision making.

              1. When developing their monitoring priorities, work programme, and monitoring approaches, the Monitor must ensure that they have as a key priority the need to support improved outcomes for children and young people, with particular attention to the need to support improved outcomes for Māori children and young people.

              2. When developing their monitoring priorities, work programme, and monitoring approaches, the Monitor must have regard to the need to listen to the voices of children, young people, and whānau in contact with the Oranga Tamariki system, including, in the case of children and young people, upholding their right to share their views and have those views taken into account.

              3. In this section and section 14(1), other systems means the services or support provided by agencies or their contracted partners, or the performance or exercise of statutory functions or powers,—

              4. in relation to children or young people who—
                1. are or were the subject of a report made under section 15 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989; or
                  1. are subject to any process under Part 4 or 5 or sections 351 to 360 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989; and
                  2. that aim to address the risk factors that increase the likelihood of a person’s involvement in the statutory care and protection system or youth justice jurisdiction under that Act.