August 24, 2017
Labour eyes Whanau Ora support
Labour leader Jacinda Ardern says the party wants to see how Whanau Ora can be resourced properly.
In the past Labour has been skeptical of the way the Maori Party's flagship social services delivery policy was being implemented by the government.
But Ms Ardern says Labour can support the underlying aim.
"The idea of navigators working with families, reducing down the amount of work they have to do to get through the system, and just really supporting them and focusing on what they want from us rather that the other way round, Whanau Ora makes good sense and in fact mirrors some of the early work we started doing around Family Start. For us it's been more a question how we fund it, support it, resource it in the right way," she says.
Jacinda Ardern says Labour is also concerned at the plummeting Maori home ownership rates and the effect that has on communities and whanau.
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