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Why should child welfare and schools focus on minimising placement change as part of permanency planning for children?

Social Work Now, Issue 41, pages 19-27. For every child, education is critical to successful transition to adulthood. The need of foster children for a stable…

Kin care – Understanding the dynamics

Social Work Now, Issue 41, pages 4-11. In Aotearoa New Zealand many children, both Māori and Pākehā, have been taken in by whānau and extended family…

The Quality of Teaching in Kura Māori

This report presents the findings from an Education Review Office (ERO) evaluation of the quality of teaching in kura Māori. The Ministry of Education asked ERO…

New Kiwis, Diverse Families: Migrant and former refugee families talk about their early childhood care and education needs

This Families Commission report is based on focus groups with six groups of parents, mostly mothers, from differing migrant and refugee communities from non-English speaking backgrounds…

Beyond Reasonable Debt Part 1: A background report of the indebtedness of New Zealand families

The Families Commission and Retirement Commission carried out joint research on the indebtedness of New Zealand individuals and families. This background report identifies some of the key…

The Intermediate Housing Market in New Zealand

This research identifies the current and future demographics and spatial distribution of the intermediate housing market across New Zealand and investigates the market, social and policy…

Scoping Study into the Creation of a Register of Housing Research in New Zealand

This initial scoping study was undertaken to determine the value and feasibility of establishing a comprehensive register of housing research.

Measuring Job Tenure Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

The publication of job tenure statistics from Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (LEED) in 2006 provided the first comprehensive source of information in this area…

Degrees of Separation in the New Zealand Workforce: Evidence from linked employer-employee data

The idea that the world is a small place has been around for a long time. In the 1960’s the psychologist Stanley Milgram, who is perhaps…

Work Patterns after Paid Parental Leave

This paper uses longitudinal data from the Linked Employer-Employee Dataset to describe the employment and earnings patterns of people who first received paid parental leave between…