May 07, 2020
First birthday for Oranga Tamariki uplift fighter
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It’s a year since Oranga Tamariki’s attempt to uplift a baby from Hawke’s Bay Hospital sparked a public outcry, and the lawyer for the mother believes progress is being made slowly.
Janet Mason says the pepe turned one at the weekend and is still with his mother, and efforts continue to get her other children returned to her.
She says a lot could depend on the Waitangi Tribunal.
Some of her clients want the issues around to be put before the tribunal hearing the Mana Wahine Claim, while others want to be heard by the inquiry into Oranga Tamariki.
“The Oranga Tamariki tribunal wants to get something out in a timely way and look mainly at that process of uplift of newborns because that’s the really problematic one and they’re looking at having what they’re calling contextual hearings and the first one possibly looking at the Hastings case,” Ms Mason says.
Janet Mason
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