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The Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy was launched on 29 August 2019, at Kaitao school in Rotorua. The Strategy sets out a shared understanding of what’s important for child and youth wellbeing, what government is doing, and how others can help.

The Policy Project joined the Ministry for Women  in launching Bringing Gender In, a gender analysis tool. The tool helps policy practitioners explore the gender impacts of any policy as they move through the policy process.

The Development Pathways Tool can help you as a policy practitioner to develop your policy skills.

A Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) follow-up review of the New Zealand Intelligence Community has been released.

The Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration (Nicky Wagner) released the ChristChurch Cathedral Reinstatement Offer today.

More information on the Cathedral Working Group website

At the Massey University National Security Conference on 30 August 2016, Howard Broad gave the following speech.

Howard Broad is the Deputy Chief Executive of the Security and Intelligence Group of DPMC

The Prime Minister and the Head of the Policy Profession officially launched the Policy Project’s three policy improvement frameworks.

Greater Christchurch Group has released the report of a survey conducted by CERA of more than 2000 property owners who accepted a Crown offer to evaluate wellbeing outcomes, and to determine whether the Crown's recovery objectives had been met.  The survey and report were carried out by Nielsen Research.

1 April 2016

Experienced public servant Kelvan Smith has been appointed Director of the Greater Christchurch Group of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).

17 November 2015

Michelle Mitchell has been appointed Director of the Canterbury Group within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).

Cabinet Office circular CO (15) 3 Revised Legislation Advisory Committee Guidelines: Cabinet Requirements

Cabinet Office circular CO (14) 8 Cabinet Committees: Terms of Reference and Membership, has just been publ

Cabinet Office circular CO (14) 7 Government Formation: Next Steps, has been published.

See: PIF report of core New Zealand Intelligence Community.

Special Honours List 2014: New Zealand Bravery Awards has now published.