Every Child Counts - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 10 May 2012 04:35:58 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Every Child Counts - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Child poverty a business issue https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/11/child-poverty-a-business-issue/ Thu, 10 May 2012 19:34:38 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=25139

Business New Zealand, a business lobby group, is supporting a series of discussions that aim to ensure that child poverty in New Zealand is given due consideration. Working with the Every Child Counts campaign (a group of NGO's including Plunket, Save the Children and Barnados), Business New Zealand's Phil O'Reilly says that "Businesses first and foremost Read more

Child poverty a business issue... Read more]]> Business New Zealand, a business lobby group, is supporting a series of discussions that aim to ensure that child poverty in New Zealand is given due consideration.

Working with the Every Child Counts campaign (a group of NGO's including Plunket, Save the Children and Barnados), Business New Zealand's Phil O'Reilly says that "Businesses first and foremost are interested in successful communities, and if you think about some of the most pressing issues today, they are around children."

In an article in the Dominion Post, Catherine Harris reported that the first meeting was to be at Te Papa last night.

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New Zealand ranked 28th out of 30 countries using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data on international performance across 20 different aspects of children's lives. New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of spending on children in the OECD, at $3 billion dollars annually. This information is contained in a report, "1000 days Read more

NZ has low rate of spending on Children... Read more]]> New Zealand ranked 28th out of 30 countries using Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data on international performance across 20 different aspects of children's lives.

New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of spending on children in the OECD, at $3 billion dollars annually.

This information is contained in a report, "1000 days to get it right for every child. The effectiveness of public investment in New Zealand children", commissioned by Every Child Counts

The report says outcomes in areas such as health and education for New Zealand children are almost twice as bad as those for children in Denmark, the country with the highest ranking.

It suggests that the Government create programmes focusing on the first 1000 days of a child's life - the period that experts say is the most important for children's development.

Every Child Counts is a coalition of organisations and individuals led by Barnardos, Plunket, Unicef, Save the Children and Te Kahui Mana Ririki.

Its author of the report is Infometrics economist David Grimmond

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Stuff.co.nz

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