The inquiry into the disappearance of the Phillips children has exposed serious failures across New Zealand’s child protection system — reigniting the question of whether another review and another promise of change will be enough. The Government has accepted all nine recommendations from the inquiry, which made 41 findings after examining how agencies responded before…

If somebody has nowhere to live, where exactly are we moving them on to? That question is at the centre of a growing campaign calling for people sleeping rough to be moved into housing by Christmas, rather than simply moved from one public space to another. A coalition of 18 organisations is backing urgent action…