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"Great interest": Record number of people studying health courses
12+ hour, 50+ min ago (95+ words) Demand for health workers is leading more people to take up health courses." Ministry of Education data shows 52 thousand people were studying some form of health course last year " the most since records began a decade ago." That includes 17, 800 people…...
The Warehouse recalls Uniti sand art sets after asbestos found in test
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (462+ words) Just months after Kmart was forced to recall children's play sand contaminated with asbestos, The Warehouse and Warehouse Stationery have issued a voluntary public recall for its products after a test sample returned a positive reading. The Uniti sand art…...
New study to examine inhalation risk of asbestos found in kids' play sand
3+ week, 1+ day ago (415+ words) A world-first study led by the Auckland University of Technology is set to examine whether fibres in contaminated children's play sand can become airborne and inhaled. The research comes after tremolite asbestos was discovered in coloured play sand used in…...
Half of NZ's most vulnerable children excluded from fuel relief package
3+ week, 6+ day ago (824+ words) About half of the country's most vulnerable children living in material hardship will not benefit from the Government's latest relief addressing rising fuel prices. In oral questioning in the House from the Green Party on Wednesday, Child Poverty Reduction Minister…...
'Human error': Stanford admits National Party video sent to school principals through ministerial email
4+ week, 7+ hour ago (548+ words) Education Minister Erica Stanford is copping criticism after an email from her ministerial address urged principals to show their teachers a promotional video published by the National Party's You Tube channel." Labour says it is "completely inappropriate" for Stanford to…...
'Isolated incident': IVF clinic reassures patients after embryos go missing
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (106+ words) Fertility Associates is reassuring patients their processes are robust, after frozen embryos went missing last year while in its care. It says this only involved one couple, that was treated at its Auckland clinic in 2025. An audit done by an…...
John Cowan: How should you scare your kids straight?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (173+ words) Newstalk ZB Follow the podcast on Kids push limits - it's just what they do. From as early as the toddler years, it's completely developmentally normal for children to figure out just how for they can push their parents before a…...
Second young offender bootcamp pilot to begin as proposed law delayed
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (379+ words) Oranga Tamariki is about to begin another bootcamp pilot, also known as a military-style academy, with legislation intended to establish ongoing bootcamps yet to reach Parliament. The Government, informed by National and Act Party 2023 election policy, initiated a 12-month bootcamp…...
Mike's Minute: What's the answer to our child poverty issue?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (432+ words) To the so-called poverty issue. The report actually uses the word "hardship". Kids in hardship, roughly, is flat. About 14% of kids allegedly live in some form of hardship. Hardship is often replaced with the word poverty. They are different things…...
Francesca Rudkin: Are Erica Stanford's reporting changes a step in the right direction?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (493+ words) Well, congratulations to all the parents out there of school-age children - most returned to school last week, only then to be home again for the long weekend. Anyway, as of tomorrow, there's a sense the year begins proper now and…...