When Oranga Tamariki social workers and police uplift children without notice, often using deception to gain access to the children, parents and families are justifiably enraged, shocked, and indeed beside themselves. Families’ and parents’ reaction may then make things worse and be used against them in subsequent court proceedings.
All of that is bad enough.
What makes everything worse is confusion about the relevant law. [Read more…] about ‘Care and protection’ – confusion about without-notice uplifts, family group conferences, and s67 ‘declarations’
