This summit being run by the Government just doesn't cut the mustard.

The Balderstons are prisoners in someone else's home as they wait for a modified house.

Half of workers earning less than $24,000 won't get benefit at all from new Budget perks.

The Govt snuck stricter welfare rules for migrants into the Budget.

Tailored support in the Budget for family violence victims and struggling Cantabrians.

Mental health is at the centre of Government's $321 million social investment programme.

Social Development Minister 'disappointed' after data breach review criticises department.

COMMENT:

Footage shows the toddler wandering lost before being helped to return home.

Social Development Ministry reveals fewest people on the benefit in 20 years.

Mary Holm column: Advice for a teen with 'extraordinary entrepreneurial skills'.

Thousands of people could be helped into long-term employment via a new initiative.

An independent review at the Ministry for Social Development had been announced.

The flooding in Bay of Plenty has bee classified as "medium-scale adverse event".

Almost 170 children were found to be abused in state care during five years.

Meanwhile, a plan to require all NGOs to give up their private data has been criticised.

Taxpayers spent $1m on lawyers before settling abuse claims for a fraction of this cost.

Event slammed by the Backbone Collective, as "too little too late".

Child Youth and Family is to review how it handled a case where five children were so badly neglected they had to eat rotten food.

How do Prime Minister Bill English's comments about drug tests stack up with official data?

Top marketing graduate Kyal Little is still looking for a job 18 months after graduating - because he hasn't yet found an employer

Police say it's not unusual for them to prosecute beggars who are asking for money but don't need it. The comment comes after a Hastings

A Glen Innes tenant battling against eviction from her former state house has put a surprising argument to the Tenancy Tribunal.

Finance minister Steven Joyce says socials bonds work a bit like the role of private investors in PPP infrastructure schemes.

A second wife in a polygamous may be regarded as a solo parent and entitled to a solo-parent benefit.

WHAT ARE WE DOING? Tauranga Homelessness Steering Group presented findings and plans to city councillors on how to tackle the wicked

Prominent Kiwis have banded together to demand an independent inquiry into the claims of sexual and physical abuse of children in state care.

An inquiry into the abuse of children and others in state care to ensure the mistakes of the past are not being repeated would surely do no harm.

Hawke's Bay is facing a housing crisis with moteliers saying dozens of people squeezed out of emergency motel accommodation due to

A man who denies indecently assaulting a girl during a school holiday programme can be named today.