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 Royal Commission invites current and former employees and contractors of the following State sector agencies to approach it if they believe that they can assist its inquiry:
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 Policy Quality Framework has been refreshed to incorporate the best elements of the original Policy Quality Framework and other quality frameworks in use.
The report titled Lessons from the Canterbury earthquake sequence provides a whole-of-government perspective on the lessons from the Government’s recovery efforts from the Canterbury earthquake disaster.
In two speeches this week Andrew Kibblewhite, Head of the Policy Profession continued his theme of the ‘F-words’ that characterise good policy advice – free, frank, fearless, full and future-focused.
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.
Experienced public servant Kelvan Smith has been appointed Director of the Greater Christchurch Group of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).