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Every Child Counts Conference (Wellington)

By Anne / 27 August 2008

9am- 5.30pm, 10-11 September 2008
James Cook Hotel, the Terrace, Wellington

Every Child Counts is focused on achieving change in four vital areas related to child well-being:
* Putting children and families at the centre of policy and planning.
* Ensuring all children get a good start in the early years.
* Reducing child abuse and neglect, and
* Ending child poverty.

Highlights of the annual conference include presentations from National Party leader John Key and the Hon Ruth Dyson, Minister of Social Development and presentation of the Every Child Counts Awards by Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier

Other speakers:

  • Di Grennell (Ngati Mutunga, Ngai Tahu), Executive Director of Amokura, Northlands pan-tribal family violence prevention programme
  • Richard Eckersley, respected Australian researcher into generational perspectives on young peoples health and well-being
  • Baroness Doreen Massey, Chair, House of Lords All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children, United Kingdom
  • Dr Susan St John, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Auckland and member of Child Poverty Action Group
  • Professor Richie Poulton, Director, Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit.

For more information go to www.everychildcounts.org.nz or ring 04 3855 667.

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This site is run by the Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church.

We seek to nurture justice spirituality and imagination, and engage in advocacy in all areas of life, overcoming poverty and transforming violence.

We encourage people to think and live “justly”, and emphasise debate and action on local, national and global issues.

Although we are Anglican, our vision isn’t so much about being Anglican. It’s about living justly. Justice is about how you live your life, and being just where we are. Working together, we can all flourish.

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