ITS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING
In todays New Zealand Herald, finally someone is telling it like it is.
In an article about Child abuse being the public's fault this line says it all.
"Peter Hughes, chief executive of the Ministry of Social Development, said no department could have prevented the deaths of 3-month-old South Auckland infants Chris and Cru Kahui.
Until adults accepted responsibility for situations like those Child, Youth and Family encountered, "we will not solve this problem", Mr Hughes said."
"Those children were killed by an adult New Zealander - they were not murdered by a Government department." The Kahui twins died in the Starship hospital on June 18 of serious head injuries. Mr Hughes' strongly-worded comments came during a marathon 2 1/2-hour appearance before Parliament's social services select committee yesterday.
Further from the article "When National MP Anne Tolley asked in an exasperated tone why there had not been any involvement, Mr Hughes said he wanted to respond to the "rhetoric" that had been in the media about that.
"I've been involved now with CYF for nearly 12 months, and the thing that I see constantly that is more remarkable to me, is the way in which adult New Zealanders refuse to take personal responsibility for these situations," he said.
He said some adults had repeatedly in the media expressed "deep and profound understanding" of the Kahui family's situation. "Yet not one of those adults acted to intervene in that situation to enable us to help," Mr Hughes said. "Not one of them even picked up the phone and phoned us."
Adult New Zealanders needed to "stop pointing the finger" at Government departments and other people, and take personal responsibility. "All that is required is a phone call, an anonymous phone call - unless individual New Zealanders do that we will never get in front of this problem."
You know its about time that I have been impressed by the leader of a government department. Its finally been put into the arena where it is supposed to be.
So...now what is going to be done about it? I wonder if he will be replaced because he has said what a lot of people are thinking. People who speak the truth in government department management levels don't often get the chances to stick around.
In an article about Child abuse being the public's fault this line says it all.
"Peter Hughes, chief executive of the Ministry of Social Development, said no department could have prevented the deaths of 3-month-old South Auckland infants Chris and Cru Kahui.
Until adults accepted responsibility for situations like those Child, Youth and Family encountered, "we will not solve this problem", Mr Hughes said."
"Those children were killed by an adult New Zealander - they were not murdered by a Government department." The Kahui twins died in the Starship hospital on June 18 of serious head injuries. Mr Hughes' strongly-worded comments came during a marathon 2 1/2-hour appearance before Parliament's social services select committee yesterday.
Further from the article "When National MP Anne Tolley asked in an exasperated tone why there had not been any involvement, Mr Hughes said he wanted to respond to the "rhetoric" that had been in the media about that.
"I've been involved now with CYF for nearly 12 months, and the thing that I see constantly that is more remarkable to me, is the way in which adult New Zealanders refuse to take personal responsibility for these situations," he said.
He said some adults had repeatedly in the media expressed "deep and profound understanding" of the Kahui family's situation. "Yet not one of those adults acted to intervene in that situation to enable us to help," Mr Hughes said. "Not one of them even picked up the phone and phoned us."
Adult New Zealanders needed to "stop pointing the finger" at Government departments and other people, and take personal responsibility. "All that is required is a phone call, an anonymous phone call - unless individual New Zealanders do that we will never get in front of this problem."
You know its about time that I have been impressed by the leader of a government department. Its finally been put into the arena where it is supposed to be.
So...now what is going to be done about it? I wonder if he will be replaced because he has said what a lot of people are thinking. People who speak the truth in government department management levels don't often get the chances to stick around.
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