Report on institutional racism released

The Ministerial Advisory Committee report revealed that 62% of children in residential homes in the Auckland area were Māori.^[i]

The Māori Advisory Unit concluded that the Department was racist in the institutional sense; it was a typical, hierarchical bureaucracy, the rules of which reflected the values of the dominant Pākehā society. It reported that Māori input to policy was negligible and that insistence on professional qualifications for staff frequently disadvantaged Māori applicants.^[ii]