Paula Bennett will spend five weeks in the US looking at ways to develop new policy on expanding corporate social responsibility in NZ.

A panel of experts has recommended an alert system for all abusive mothers so officials know when they have more children.

New laws to make sole parents look for work after their youngest children turn 6 will be phased in over several years, the Govt says.

Organisations discussing how 'social policy forum' will work best.

An official survey has found that families with children are far more likely to be in hardship than any other New Zealanders.

There seemed to be more laughing and joking going on than rugby as some deserving teens got to test their skills against their sporting idols.

Thirteen of the 20 highest-paid beneficiaries and almost a third of those on more than $1000 a week are looking after other people's children.

The head of the Families Commission today told MPs she couldn't define a policy with a Maori name because she was a middle class white woman.

John Key says a new review gives parents the go-ahead to lightly smack their children without the fear of prosecution.

NZ's biggest benefit fraudster manipulated a web of offshore accounts from prison in a bid to hide the $3.4m he stole from taxpayers.

The State Services Commission has ordered an investigation into a Labour Party complaint about National MP Paul Quinn.