29 Jun 2021

Govt demands answers over violence in Oranga Tamariki video

From Checkpoint, 5:42 pm on 29 June 2021

The government is demanding answers after a video showing a boy being tackled and put into a headlock at an Oranga Tamariki care facility was leaked to media.

Newsroom.co.nz published footage taken at a care and protection unit, which looks after young people with high needs who can't live with family.

Oranga Tamariki says it is deeply concerned with what the video shows and has launched its own investigation, while the Children's Commissioner wants the facilities scrapped entirely.

Nita Blake-Persen filed this report.