1+ hour, 19+ min ago  (479+ words) LISTEN LIVE to the Children's Commissioner on Checkpoint: The Children's Commissioner is calling for young people's voices to be heard in discussions around banning social media for under-16s. Dr Claire Achmad said that mokopuna should have the right to have…...

6+ hour, 55+ min ago  (132+ words) Mary Willow's spent nearly 40 years working with children and families as a registered nurse, certified midwife, early childhood teacher and parenting mentor. Her Plum Parenting programme has helped thousands of parents navigate the choppy waters of raising kids. Her latest…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (101+ words) RNZ Rolleston College student takes out songwriting competition Luke Van Wyk, a student at Rolleston College has taken out first place in the Play it Strange Junior Songwriting Competition. Previous well-known winners include Kimbra, Nott of Broods and Liz Stokes…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (657+ words) One South Auckland high school said around 40% of its Year 12 and 13 students were working to help their families. Sam Saega is a Year 13 student at Papakura High School in Auckland. He also has a casual contract at a Woolworths supermarket,…...

1+ week, 16+ min ago  (792+ words) A family says they were forced into a world-wide search for a medical diagnosis for their young son after New Zealand doctors initially dismissed his symptoms as autism. Timaru couple Josh Docos and Nesa Morey say their five year old…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (560+ words) The government says a new law, which will allow the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) to use AI to make benefit decisions, will modernise New Zealand's welfare system. The Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill passed its third reading in Parliament…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (647+ words) An expert on the impacts of child poverty says 50, 000 more children are suffering from material hardship than three years ago. Under the Public Finance Act, one of the legal requirements of the Budget is that the government releases a Child…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (622+ words) The government's Budget sparked angry scenes in Wellington overnight when students marched on Parliament. They were protesting the government's decision to end the fees-free policy at the end of this year and let tertiary institutions raise their fees by up…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (720+ words) School leavers in some of the country's poorest and smallest districts face a near impossible battle to find work or training places, with unemployment among 15- to 24-year-olds jumping dramatically in those regions in the last year. Youth unemployment is soaring…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (123+ words) 09: 05 Co-parenting arrangements fall through cracks - researcher A leading researcher says New Zealand's official data systems fail to track the realities of co-parenting and shared care arrangements." Often unseen because they are not counted in the Census, these shared care arrangements…...