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About UsThe Crown Response Unit was set up in February 2019 to coordinate and drive the Government’s response to the Royal Commission. The Unit is an autonomous unit housed within Oranga Tamariki. The Unit makes sure agencies respond quickly and helpfully to the Royal Commission’s information requests and recommendations through to June 2023, when the Royal Commission will end. Another significant part of the Unit's work is responding to the Royal Commission's interim report on redress, which recommended a new, independent, trauma-informed redress system. Find out more about our work.(external link) |
Principles-based approach to the Crown responseThe Crown is committed to a principles-based approach in its dealings with the Royal Commission and survivors of abuse in care. The six principles setting out how the Crown will respond to the Royal Commission are:
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OutcomesThe Crown would like to see the following outcomes from the Royal Commission process:
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Governance and managementStrategic governance of the Crown Response is provided by a Sponsoring Group made up of the Chief Executives from:
The Chair of the Sponsoring Group is the Secretary of Education, Iona Holsted. The Minister for the Public Service, Hon Andrew Little, is the Minister responsible for the Crown Response to the Abuse in Care Inquiry. An interagency group oversees and helps coordinate agencies' contributions to the Crown Response. The group includes representatives of the following agencies most directly involved in State care, or holding key records about care history:
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Our Director
Isaac (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne) was previously Head of Injury Prevention at ACC, where he worked since 2007 across all aspects of prevention, care and recovery. He has worked collaboratively across the public sector in strengthening partnerships, supporting the delivery of public sector strategies, and supporting the development of whānau-centred well-being models. Isaac starts his role on 1 February 2023. He replaces Alana Ruakere, who has taken up the position of chief executive of Tui Ora Ltd, an iwi-based social services provider in New Plymouth. |