| Media Release on Household Incomes Report (03/07/2008) |
Increases in Food Grants an acknowledgement that Benefit levels are too low
The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) welcomes the news in the Household Incomes Report that poverty levels have fallen. The Household Incomes Report is based on a survey taken between July 2006 and June 2007.
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| Budget 2008 - An Initial Analysis from NZCCSS (23/05/2008) |
A brief analysis of the 2008 Government Budget looking at the areas of particular interest to NZCCSS members: Poverty, Housing, Children & Families and Older People. tax cuts, impact on beneficiaries, As more information emerge we will be updating our analysis and we welcome comment and feedback.
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| Media Release: Budget 2008 (22/05/2008) |
Budget 2008 has struck a balance in striving for a “Fair Economy” through its significant tax cuts, maintenance of social spending and initiatives to strengthen well-being in the community, says Trevor McGlinchey, Executive Officer of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS).
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| Media Release: Make Poverty History anniversary (15/05/2008) |
The messages carried by the historic Make Poverty History petition that was delivered to Parliament one year ago today - 15 May – must continue to be heard, says the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS).
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| Media Release: Praise for Carers Strategy (30/04/2008) |
Action taken by the Government this week to ensure a strategy is in place to support family and community based carers in helping others to have a good quality of life has been praised by the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS).
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| Media Release: Support for CPAG report - (28/04/2008) |
To start lifting all children in Aotearoa New Zealand out of poverty we need to set measurable targets to reduce the unacceptably high number of children who continue to live in severe or significant hardship. This is the message that the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) takes from Left Behind: How social and income inequalities damage New Zealand children, a major report on child poverty released today by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).
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| Media Release: Warning bell sounded for aged care (12/04/2008) |
Lin Hatfield Dodds, a leader in the aged care and social service sector in Australia, has sounded a warning bell for those who provide services to older people in New Zealand that the same pressures that apply in Australia could also lead to a crisis point in the provision of aged care here.
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| Media Release: Housing needs for older New Zealanders (11/04/2008) |
Providing vulnerable older New Zealanders with a range of choices about how and where they live in their later years is a major focus for a two-day conference on services for older people being held in Napier this week.
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| Media Release: Services for Older People Conference (10/04/2008) |
A two-day conference on services for older people began in Napier today with speeches by academic experts Dr Satya Brink, of Simon Fraser University (Canada), Dr Matthew Parsons, of Auckland University, and Lin Hatfield Dodds, President of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).
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| Media Release: Putting social justice and compassion issues on the agenda (28/03/2008) |
The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) today launched an information programme for raising public awareness of social justice and compassion issues, under the theme ‘Let Us Look After Each Other – Aroha tētahi ki tētahi’.
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| Statement: Towards a more just and compassionate society (28/03/2008) |
Church leaders from the Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Salvation Army churches announced their support today for the launch of a new programme to raise public awareness of issues of social justice and compassion in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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| Media Release: Support for call for Cross-Party focus on Children's issues (03/03/2008) |
The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services supports the call, made yesterday on Children's Day - Te Ra O Te Tamariki (2 March), for issues and policies that affect children to be discussed at a cross-party level.
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| Media Release: Funding boost for social services welcomed (25/02/2008) |
The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) is very pleased with the decision by Government to fully fund NGOs that provide essential social services. NZCCSS believes the much needed additional funding to social services providers will result in more robust communities and healthier families.
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| NZCCSS Services for Older People Conference 2008, 9-11 April 2008 (17/01/2008) |
Every two years NZCCSS organises a conference on services for older people aimed at both our own membersship and also the wider sector of service provision for older people. This year the venue for the meeting is the Napier War Memorial Conference Centre, Napier.
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| Media Release: Sustained investment in social housing vital (27/08/2007) |
A large-scale and sustained investment in social housing is absolutely vital to the further reduction of poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand, says the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS).
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