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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

15: Tools and monitoring approaches

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"Checking how well things are working for kids and families"

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The Monitor has to create tools and ways to check how things are going under this Act. You will see the Monitor use these tools to help them check and report on things. The Monitor must make sure their tools and ways of checking include important information and indicators to see if things are being done correctly.

The Monitor's tools and ways of checking must respect the families, whānau, hapū, iwi, and communities of children and young people, and their culture. The Monitor must also use a tikanga Māori approach when creating their tools and ways of checking. This means the Monitor will think about how to constantly improve and make sure things are working well.

When the Monitor is creating their tools and ways of checking, they have to talk to certain people, like the chief executive of Oranga Tamariki. The Monitor must also talk to the chief executive of services that care for children or young people, as stated in section 396 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. The Monitor will also talk to the Commissioner of Police to get their input.

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

15Tools and monitoring approaches

  1. The Monitor must develop tools and monitoring approaches to support their monitoring and reporting under this Act.

  2. The Monitor must ensure that their tools and monitoring approaches—

  3. include the sources of information and key indicators of performance that will be used to assess compliance, quality of care, and changes over time; and
    1. operate in a way that recognises the importance of children’s and young people’s families, whānau, hapū, iwi, and communities and their culture; and
      1. incorporate a tikanga Māori approach.

        1. The tools and monitoring approaches must have regard to systems for continuous improvement, self-monitoring, and assurance.

        2. In developing their tools and monitoring approaches, the Monitor must consult—

        3. the chief executive of Oranga Tamariki:
          1. the chief executive of services approved under section 396 of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989, who has custody of children or young people:
            1. the Commissioner of Police.