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Community Groups
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
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A properly fitted child safety restraint can reduce the risk of a serious or fatal injury in a car crash by as much as 70 per cent.
But if the restraint is incorrectly installed, the seat is too old, belts are frayed, or the child is not strapped in correctly, they may be next to useless.
This Saturday, 10am-2pm at the Taita Out-Reach Church carpark, Plunket, ACC and Hutt City Council have organised a 'carseat clinic' where parents and caregivers can get their car child restraints checked for free. Safe2Go technicians, who are trained in all aspects of child restraints, with be doing the checks and a mechanic will be on site to fit anchor bolts - all at no charge.
HCC's road safety co-ordinator Anna Blomquist says "We know that the incorrect use of child restraints is widespread. This is a real concern as faulty installation can reduce the safety benefits."
At a police checkpoint mounted in High Street, Lower Hutt, last March during a two-and-a-half hour period, 109 child restraints in 105 cars were checked. Just 18 of the seats were installed or being used correctly. Ninety one seats needed some sort of adjustment - ranging from major to minor.
Nine children aged under 5 were not in any form of restraint. Twenty two seats were past their 'used by' date or were damaged. And 44 of the 58 seats that required a tether strap to be used, did not have it in use. |
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A new funding model for social services |
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Community Groups
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
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Press Release: New Zealand Government
12 February, 2008
A new funding model for social
services
Our Labour-led government is investing $446
million over the next four years in rolling out a new model
for working with community organisations to ensure we
achieve the best outcomes for families, children and young
people.
This funding model will provide full funding for
contracted essential social services delivered by community
organisations. They will also receive regular and ongoing
funding increases to reflect changes in costs and
demand.
By doing this we are moving away from a
market-based system where community groups competed against
each other for funding contracts.
* The old system
encouraged fragmentation, duplication and too much funding
to be spent on overheads instead of communities.
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Now we are focusing on early intervention, the outcomes that
services deliver, and supporting community groups to work
together.
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