Lindsay Mitchell

When did this culture of over-reacting to earthquakes start? Wellington city went crazy yesterday with people pouring out post-quake desp...

This is intriguing. Below are the rates for the Youth Parent Payment : Category Net Gross Sole parent, 16 to 17 years, li...

From August 20, 2012 teenage parents requiring financial assistance were put on the Young Parent Payment (YPP). At the end of March 2013 t...

MSD has just released research findings into the Incredible Years pilot programme which works with the parents of children with  conduct p...

According to the NZ Herald today Metiria Turei and Tariana Turia are back on the old issue of Maori children and Maori responsibility. They...

Under Public Notices in today's DomPost the Electoral Commission advised the application  for approval of the logo representing a new po...

John Minto says that Labour needs "a kick up the backside" for not pushing the message that poverty is the "key factor"...

When it comes to child abuse substantiations there is no publicly available information about the relationship between the abuser and abused...

Statistics NZ has changed the tables that accompany the Household Labour Force .Survey. They've excluded the two that show 'employe...

The author of The Welfare State We're In is writing a new book. His latest post coincides with my earlier topic this week prompted by di...

I accept the government's tax subsidy to Rio Tinto is corporate welfare. Corporate welfare is bad because it's privilege for some...

New Zealand's small population makes politics particularly fertile ground for power-hungry egos. Combined with the incestuousness of MMP...

There are only 34,200 Maori aged 65 and older. 65+  34,200 75+  11,000 80+  5,000 In the total population  616,660 people are aged 65 ...

Last week the Child Poverty Action Group released a report into the link between substantiated child abuse and socio-economic deprivation, ...

My subscription to e-mail notifications of new studies coming out of the Christchurch Health and Development Study delivered this finding t...

Here's one OECD chart New Zealand is topping, Family Violence   Chart SF3.4.A Prevalence of partner physical or sexual assault, w...

New research from CPAG claims there is "no evidence of an association between benefit receipt and distinct substantiated rates of chil...

CPAG has been heralding the release of a new report into child abuse which analyses CYF data. It hasn't gone on-line yet but Stuff has a...

A column published in the NZCPD newsletter today speculates about the lack of public protest against National's current welfare reforms:...

In the interests of children the In Work Tax Credit should be retained as a work incentive. Even Labour believed that working parents offere...