Carmel Sepuloni

I am conscious of criticising Carmel after the toxic vomit thrown at Jacinda, but her looming appointment as the Deputy after Kiri pulled out (apparently ...

State Services is now recommending any abuse inside Oranga Tamariki is now monitored out of the Education Review Office who have no skill in this area! Of the 126 detailed recommendations, only 4 (3%) have been found to be fully implemented. For her spite in Welfare and removal of oversight of the most vulnerable children, Carmel should be ruled out as the Deputy, but Labour have diversity box ticking to do here and so the Minister who didn’t implement the reforms from the Welfare Advisory Group and who made oversight of vulnerable children more difficult is now getting rewarded with Deputy Prime Minister status. Oranga Tamariki has always been about saving the State money and the welfare of the child is secondary to that isn’t it? The argument is that children from backgrounds with specific features were the worst in terms of cost to the state, so if the state stepped in and removed the children quickly enough, that cost will fall. [Ministry of Social Development removed the Children’s Commissioner as oversight of Oranga Tamariki](https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300525592/former-staff-critical-of-oranga-tamariki-bill) and instead moved monitoring into the Education Review Office.