Waitangi Tribunal releases report: He Paharakeke He Rito Whakakikinga Wharuarua – Oranga Tamariki Urgent Inquiry report.
At the heart of this claim was the issue ‘that policies and practices inconsistent with te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi…caused significant and irreversible prejudice to tamariki Māori taken into State care, as well as their whānau, hapū, and iwi’. This prejudice, the claimants allege, [was] exacerbated by the disproportionately high number of tamariki Māori continuing to enter the State care and protection system.[i]