Tauranga MP Simon Bridges is encouraging people to have their say on the proposals in the government's Green Paper for Vulnerable Children.
'Too many of our children are being abused and neglected in the Bay of Plenty and throughout New Zealand,” says Simon.
Tauranga MP Simon Bridges hopes for strong community input into the government's Green Paper for Vulnerable Children.
'It is time to take serious action to make sure our children are better protected.
'While New Zealand has a strong foundation of services and support for children and families, more needs to be done to help our children grow, develop and achieve.”
The Green Paper is a discussion document which outlines ideas the government wants to test with the public before forming a Children's Action Plan.
'This document is about New Zealand's children; how we care for and protect them, the trade-offs and sacrifices we're prepared to make, and the opportunities we want them to have.
'I want to see every child in the Bay of Plenty nurtured, valued and protected, and the Green Paper is a step towards making this happen.”
The paper poses solutions to complex issues facing children and asks the public to consider the questions raised by those issues.
'We're encouraging everyone to get involved,” Simon.
'Anyone who wants to contribute can read the Green Paper at www.childrensactionplan.govt.nz and make a submission.
We should unite as a community and get behind this process, to help make a real difference in the lives of children.”
Submissions are open until February 28, 2012, and can be made on Facebook at www.facebook.com/greenpaperonchildren, in person at one of the public meetings, by email to yourresponse@childrensactionplan.govt.nz, or posting to:
Green Paper for Vulnerable Children, PO Box 1556, Wellington.
3 comments
If you really want to make a difference ...
Posted on 29-07-2011 00:54 | By Murray.Guy
If you really want to make a difference ... Start by helping me 'send the Mr Crow and those that share his mindset' back to the hole they crawled from. I don't need to read any green paper (although I will) to know that the 'porn industry is a direct attack on the well-being of our children. It's past time for the 'defenders' to start taking care of the 'defenceless'.
What you mean ME Kimosabe?
Posted on 30-07-2011 15:03 | By The Tomahawk Kid
What you mean ME Kimosabe? I have never abused a child in my life but I am being made to feel like its my fault! - I think it's YOUR fault! You are responsible for schemes that Pay Lowlifes to produce children they don't want and who are killing them, abusing them, hitting them around the head with bats and pieces of wood, throwing them in dryers and against the wall - all utterly in defiance of the Bradford-Key anti-smacking law, which you'll remember was going to put a stop to all this - and do you know who's to blame for all these incidents: According to all the experts, we all are! You, me, absolutely everyone. Everyone except for the lowlifes and those who take our money to pay for their breeding. "They're not to blame," I keep hearing; "WE are." It makes me sick. "Only New Zealanders as individuals can take control of the social ills facing us all today. Forget about Nanny State, it was she who set this disaster up in the first place and it was WE who voted for it. Nothing can be done until we win back control over our own lives. This means getting Nanny State out of our homes, out of our workplaces, out of your children's minds and out of our pockets. The well being of our fellow citizens, neighbours, friends and relatives does not need to be centrally controlled and we certainly shouldn't be compelled to finance what is now proving to be a social disaster."
Heres something I wrote on the subject in 1997
Posted on 30-07-2011 16:16 | By The Tomahawk Kid
If I hear the word WE again in regard to the Nia Glassie murder, I am going to stick some people in a clothes dryer myself. Take your word WE and shove-it! I have never abused a child. I have never stood by and allowed anyone to beat up on the innocent and defenceless. I did not cause YOU to act like a monster and beat a toddler to death. That would have been, oh, there's a word for it... YOU! That people think in terms of WE is the problem. The collective mentality where children cease to be taken care of by two parents and are barely given care at all by numerous relatives. Socialism doesn't work in anything else - why on earth would it take better care of a child? It is a case of the 'tragedy of the commons,” where things that are not subject to property rights get abused by everybody - nobody has the responsibility to take care of them. Without 'ownership” kids just become nuisances that losers can utilise as punching bags. Me take ownership? HELL NO. That's the problem. The buck is being passed to the community. Let's pass it back to those who should own it: neglectful parents. Yeah YOU! These are YOUR children. Stop beating them up! The only way WE are responsible is by giving our consent to governments to take our money and give it - without obligation - to no-hopers. A major welfare reform is the only thing likely to pull this country out of the WE mentality 'WE” should be ashamed that 'WE” have not voted out those who still think this system works!
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