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      • Child poverty reduction and wellbeing legislation
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        • Outcome: Loved, safe and nurtured
        • Outcome: Have what they need
        • Outcome: Happy and healthy
        • Outcome: Learning and developing
        • Outcome: Accepted, respected and connected
        • Outcome: Involved and empowered
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      • Actions for 'Loved, safe and nurtured'
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      • Actions for 'Involved and empowered'
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  • Measuring success
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      • Feeling loved
      • Feeling safe
      • Family/whānau wellbeing
      • Serious injuries
      • Harm against children
      • Quality time with parents
      • Material wellbeing
      • Child poverty
      • Food insecurity
      • Housing quality
      • Housing affordability
      • Prenatal wellbeing
      • Subjective health status
      • Potentially avoidable hospitalisations
      • Mental wellbeing
      • Self-harm and suicide
      • Participation in early learning
      • Regular school attendance
      • Literacy, numeracy, and science skills
      • Social-emotional skills
      • Self-management skills
      • Youth participation in employment, education, or training
      • Ability to “be themselves”
      • Sense of belonging
      • Experience of discrimination
      • Experience of bullying
      • Social support
      • Support for cultural identity
      • Languages
      • Involvement in community
      • Representation of young people's voices
      • Making positive choices
      • Criminal offending
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  • Our aspirations
    • Context
      • Child poverty reduction and wellbeing legislation
      • Opportunity and challenges
      • New Zealand's children and young people
      • Reducing Child Poverty
      • Introduction to the Strategy
    • The Strategy framework
      • Outcomes
      • Guiding principles
    • Next steps
    • Strategy development
  • Actions
    • Actions per outcome
      • Actions for 'Loved, safe and nurtured'
      • Actions for 'Have what they need'
      • Actions for 'Happy and healthy'
      • Actions for 'Learning and developing'
      • Actions for 'Accepted, respected and connected'
      • Actions for 'Involved and empowered'
    • Explore actions
  • Measuring success
    • Indicators
      • Feeling loved
      • Feeling safe
      • Family/whānau wellbeing
      • Serious injuries
      • Harm against children
      • Quality time with parents
      • Material wellbeing
      • Child poverty
      • Food insecurity
      • Housing quality
      • Housing affordability
      • Prenatal wellbeing
      • Subjective health status
      • Potentially avoidable hospitalisations
      • Mental wellbeing
      • Self-harm and suicide
      • Participation in early learning
      • Regular school attendance
      • Literacy, numeracy, and science skills
      • Social-emotional skills
      • Self-management skills
      • Youth participation in employment, education, or training
      • Ability to “be themselves”
      • Sense of belonging
      • Experience of discrimination
      • Experience of bullying
      • Social support
      • Support for cultural identity
      • Languages
      • Involvement in community
      • Representation of young people's voices
      • Making positive choices
      • Criminal offending
    • Reporting
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  • The themes for the Bounce organisation

    BOUNCE – Live Life Well

    A youth-led project, developed by young people for young people, is helping young Cantabrians live life well every day.
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  • Community Sports Bank logo

    Breaking down barriers to sport

    The first of a series of Community Sports Banks kicked off in Wellington recently, in a bid to tackle inequality and break down the barriers to sport.
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  • Enabling Participation. A cartoon that illustrates findings from research with young people on ableism

    Enabling participation by changing our attitudes

    Young New Zealanders with disabilities have identified discrimination and ableist attitudes as the biggest barrier to their participation in schools and communities.
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  • Father reaching out to baby, responding to his lead

    Talking Matters - a campaign to get everyone talking to babies and young children

    Talking Matters has a vision for all children in Aotearoa to thrive as thinkers, talkers and readers, and wants people to know it's never too early to start talking to babies..
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  • Young volunteer Merryn Hamilton with her egg recipe poster

    Young volunteer adds flair to food parcels

    When a father of two came into the Masterton FoodBank and said he didn’t want a chicken because he didn’t know how to cook it, volunteer Merryn Hamilton realised there was something she could do to change people’s lives.
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  • Three people wearing Challenge Biphobia and Challenge Transphobia t-shirts

    Creating rainbow-inclusive schools

    A nationwide organisation is helping schools become safer and more inclusive for young people who identify as part of the rainbow community.
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  • Project Salaam in a classroom

    Project Salaam (Peace)

    Project Salaam (peace) is enabling Muslim secondary school students to participate in youth leadership development that focuses on conflict resolution underpinned by Islamic values of non-violence, compassion, kindness and forgiveness.
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  • School kids collecting vegetables

    Every child has a village

    Powered by the sun and local volunteers, Common Unity’s off-grid, purpose-built community kitchen produces around 200 vegetarian meals every day for the Lower Hutt community.
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  • Man and baby play with a toy

    Supporting the Early Years System

    The Supporting the Early Years Systems (SEYS) initiative helps families and whānau to nurture their children’s brain development and build readiness for life-long learning.
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  • Woman and child play with bubbles

    Importance of early brain development - from a Māori perspective

    Since 1998, Brainwave Trust Aotearoa has been delivering educational programmes to thousands of people about how early experiences influence a child’s brain development.
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  • Tradespeople on site

    Māori and Pasifika Trades Training

    Quality employment opportunities in construction, infrastructure and allied trades are being created for young South Aucklanders who often face challenges in the labour market.
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  • Adult and children inspect a box outdoors

    Birds, butterflies and local learning links

    By following their children’s interest in birds and bugs, kaiako at Picton Kindergarten are helping children learn about conservation, whanaungatanga and kaitiakitanga.
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The Strategy sets six outcomes for child and youth wellbeing. 

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Do you need help or advice?

If you're concerned about the immediate safety or wellbeing of a child or young person, call:

  • Police on 111
  • Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children on 0508 FAMILY (0508 326 459)

There are a number of organisations, website and phone-lines where you can find advice and support.

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    • Our aspirations
      • Context
        • Child poverty reduction and wellbeing legislation
        • Opportunity and challenges
        • New Zealand's children and young people
        • Reducing Child Poverty
          • Child Poverty measures, targets and indicators
        • Introduction to the Strategy
      • The Strategy framework
        • Outcomes
          • Outcome: Loved, safe and nurtured
          • Outcome: Have what they need
          • Outcome: Happy and healthy
          • Outcome: Learning and developing
          • Outcome: Accepted, respected and connected
          • Outcome: Involved and empowered
        • Guiding principles
      • Next steps
      • Strategy development
    • Actions
      • Actions per outcome
        • Actions for 'Loved, safe and nurtured'
        • Actions for 'Have what they need'
        • Actions for 'Happy and healthy'
        • Actions for 'Learning and developing'
        • Actions for 'Accepted, respected and connected'
        • Actions for 'Involved and empowered'
      • Explore actions
    • Measuring success
      • Indicators
        • Feeling loved
        • Feeling safe
        • Family/whānau wellbeing
        • Serious injuries
        • Harm against children
        • Quality time with parents
        • Material wellbeing
        • Child poverty
        • Food insecurity
        • Housing quality
        • Housing affordability
        • Prenatal wellbeing
        • Subjective health status
        • Potentially avoidable hospitalisations
        • Mental wellbeing
        • Self-harm and suicide
        • Participation in early learning
        • Regular school attendance
        • Literacy, numeracy, and science skills
        • Social-emotional skills
        • Self-management skills
        • Youth participation in employment, education, or training
        • Ability to “be themselves”
        • Sense of belonging
        • Experience of discrimination
        • Experience of bullying
        • Social support
        • Support for cultural identity
        • Languages
        • Involvement in community
        • Representation of young people's voices
        • Making positive choices
        • Criminal offending
      • Reporting
    • Community
      • Your stories
      • How to get involved
        • Share your stories
    • Engagement
      • What we heard
      • Children and young people's voices
      • Formal submissions
    • Resources
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    • Contact us
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