A survey which revealed access problems to the child disability allowance has raised more questions than answers.

Child advocates call for access to be simplified

The Salvation Army is launching an urgent Christmas appeal today as demand for food parcels is expeced to soar.

COMMENT: Does the success of outsider Republican nominee Donald Trump signal the time for a political revolution in Godzone too?

Emergency housing funding marks the Government's acceptance that it must ensure every New Zealander has adequate shelter.

Government reshuffles fever programme money to boost awareness in Auckland

Are the National Government and Murray McCully guilty of corruption? The official verdict is now in, but not everyone agrees.

Are you angry about the widening gap between rich and poor? Or are you sceptical about the stats?

Art gallery owner Benji Hinch is trading free art for sanitary products so he can put together care packages for people living rough.

COMMENT: We simply have to do better for children in NZ. Choosing not to - to count rodents because it is easier - is completely unacceptable.

Dame Tariana Turia has accused the Government of spending more money on locking people up than on combating poverty. The former Maori

Only two beggars on the streets of Hamilton are homeless, police survey shows.

Women's refuges, church agencies and other community groups will soon have to hand over their client details to the Government in

The Prime Minister has visited more than three times as many high decile schools this year, than low decile.

New Green MP Barry Coates says he has achieved change from outside politics and now he wants to achieve change from within the political system.

Auckland Council has pulled down a public art installation depicting homelessness because they thought the piece was a pile of trash.

Vegetarian cafe Revive will again donate leftover food to the Auckland City Mission.

Minister Anne Tolley says the UN Rights of the Child committee in Geneva asked her 250 questions but only one on child poverty.

COMMENT: Hurimoana Dennis, chair of Te Puea Memorial Marae, looks back over the marae's efforts to help homeless people during the winter.

When Hannah and Jordan 'Pedro' Miller did their grocery shopping this week, they allowed themselves to splurge - on an extra can of tuna.

A brief liaison with a man she didn't know cost a young Auckland woman $28 a week off her benefit for two years.

Maori Party co-leader and Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell says he is sick and tired of attending tangi of Maori who have died as a result

The gap between rich and poor is growing in New Zealand, new data shows, partly driven by rising housing costs.

This year's World Water Week, held in Stockholm, Sweden, will focus on water and sustainable growth.

COMMENT: There are two NZs on display and each is as un-Kiwi as the other.

COMMENT: Never mind arguing about whether child poverty exists: what are we going to do?

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

A family living in a South Auckland garage faces eviction in October because the landlord converted it into a flat without a council permit.

A stand-alone ministry that will replace Child, Youth and Family has been officially named as the Ministry for Vulnerable Children.