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Podcast: The Front Page
Episode: Children’s Minister Karen Chhour on boot camps and the 'national shame' of child violence
Description: It’s well known that New Zealand has a huge problem with keeping our children safe, fed, and housed.   Reports over the years show how low New Zealand ranks for child wellbeing outcomes compared to other developed countries.  Government stats show 23.5% of children born in 1998 had been the subject of a report of concern to Oranga Tamariki by the age of 17. That’s more than one in five kids. One Police study into 63 young people involved in ram-raids in 2022, showed 95% of them were linked to at least one family harm event, before first coming t...