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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
One of the key findings from a recently released OECD report (involving 30 countries) was that NZ spends considerably less on child welfare, particularly for younger disadvantaged children, compared with other member countries.
According to the NZ country highlights page “material conditions for Kiwi kids are relatively poor”. We also fare poorly on a number of health indicators such as youth suicide, immunisation rates and child mortality. On a more positive note Kiwi kids have high rates of educational achievement.
NZ is urged to invest more on younger disadvantaged children. The General Secretary of the UN acknowledges that public budgets are under pressure given the recession but warns “any short term savings on spending on children’s education and health would have major long term costs for society”.
NZ country highlights page: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/42/43589854.pdf (PDF document, 128 Kb).