She started getting emails – at one stage one every eight minutes – from social workers. MANDY TE/STUFF Oranga Tamariki chief executive Grainne Moss last year announced changes following an investigation in a high-profile uplift. Social worker and PhD student on social work at Auckland University, John Darroch also talks of a "culture of silence in child protection" at Oranga Tamariki. "What I've heard consistently from social workers over many many years now is that social workers who speak up on ethical or political issues within Child Youth and Family and now Oranga Tamariki are subject to bullying or they are otherwise disadvantaged," he says. Darroch says the current Oranga Tamariki leadership is trying to defend the organisation even against "legitimate critique".

Source: Stuff July 19, 2020 16:52 UTC