Controversial government agency Child Youth and Family Service is to begin farming out much of its work to charities like Barnardos and Plunket.
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Shannon Pakura, CYFS general manager service development, said the new model was the most
significant change for the service in a decade.
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The department had been struggling to deal with the volume of notifications – 53,000 in the last year. Some might be better dealt with by other departments, or by non-government agencies involved in family support, she said.

Draft legislation enacting the changes is before parliament.
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Every Child Counts lobbyist, Ian Hassall, and the charities themselves have welcomed the new model.

It would remove a conflict in CYFS’ role between policing families and providing support for them,
Hassall said.