Core agencies for consultation on policy for disadvantaged communities and capacity building for Maori and Pacific communities: Education, Health, Housing New Zealand Corporation, Justice, Labour, Pacific Island Affairs, Social Development, Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori Development), Women’s Affairs
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Other Agencies |
Areas of Interest |
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Agriculture and Forestry |
Effects on rural communities |
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Child, Youth and Family Services (Ministry of Social Development) |
Iwi and Maori social services, community and voluntary sector implications |
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Consumer Affairs |
Consumer issues including energy safety |
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Corrections |
Programmes and services for offenders (prisons and community), Maori and Pacific community service provider development |
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Economic Development |
Regional development, communications, infrastructure implications |
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Education Review Office |
Policies with an impact on schools and early childhood education |
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Internal Affairs |
Implications for local government and community and voluntary sector |
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Justice |
Family Court issues, Maori Land Court, Waitangi Tribunal |
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Labour |
Impacts on community economic development |
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Land Information New Zealand |
Land issues |
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Ministry of Housing |
Tenancy issues and community capacity building |
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Youth Development (Ministry of Social Development) |
Initiatives that impact on child and youth development |
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National Library |
Improving Maori language skills through strategies that increase access and knowledge to collections and information |
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Office for Disability Office (Ministry of Social Development) |
Implications for disabled people, education, employment, and income policies |
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Office of Ethnic Affairs (Department of Internal Affairs) |
Policies with impact on schools, local government and community and voluntary sector, collection of information on disadvantaged "other" ethnic groups, refugees and migrants |
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Police |
Offending and victimisation issues |
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Science and Innovation |
Social research, Maori and Pacific Island people research |