The Children's Commissioner organised another meeting yesterday to discuss youth crime. Same old, same old. Our current approach is fundamentally sound (despite it not actually working) and potential criminals almost always come from a "high risk" group who are easy to identify.
So, why not identify them?
Nine times out of ten they will be registered at WINZ within days. There's the first flag. If we are going to pay people to hold onto babies they can't raise well or even adequately, at least use the system to some advantage.
Lesley Max, chief executive of the youth lobby group Great Potentials, agreed with Judge Becroft.
She said a major factor in early intervention was parenting, and funding was needed so more help could be given to teach good parenting skills.
The steps to stop children becoming the victims of abuse were the same as the steps to stop them becoming perpetrators of crime.
New Zealand had a shameful record of child abuse, she said.
A baby crying around a young male could spark a crime with fatal repercussions.
International research indicates that most babies are killed before they reach 12 months and most newborns are killed by their mothers. But let's not mention that.
And see what else she said? MORE funding is needed. We pay the wrong people to become parents and then have to pay more to teach them how to become half-decent parents? Oh, save me. Adrift in a ship of fools.
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