9. Children—Children's Convention Monitoring Group Report and Implementation of Building BlocksHon ALFRED NGARO (National) to the Minister for ChildrenChildren—Children's Convention Monitoring Group Report and Implementation of Building Blocks9. Hon ALFRED NGARO (National) to the Minister for Children: What work does she have under way in her portfolio?Hon TRACEY MARTIN (Minister for Children): Oranga Tamariki the Ministry for Children as a team and together we have a large body of work under way which includes continuing our social worker recruitment drive developing new ways to recruit kin carers by working in partnership with iwi and our Pasifika community piloting a 24/7 caregiver support and inquiry line and improving inductions for caregivers increasing the number of safe and loving places available for children when home isn't working and including specific placements for high- and complex-needs children and for children in crisis. We've rolled out a practice framework for all social workers and we'll be evaluating this framework. We are also developing new trauma-informed practice guidelines for front-line staff. We now have more than 70 percent of our contract funding and in multiple-year contracts we are working with partners including iwi and NGOs to build and commission stronger services for children. We are working with iwi to enable them to lead family group conferences. We are working to implement the new legislative changes including care standards information sharing transition to independence and the increase in age for both—[Interruption] SPEAKER: Order! I'm going to ask the member to stop. This is an Opposition question it is a very broad question and it is an area that most members of the House think is important. I'm going to ask members on my left to stop their interjecting and I'm going to ask members on my right to stop encouraging them. Complete the answer.Hon TRACEY MARTIN: Do you want me to start from the beginning?SPEAKER: No.Hon TRACEY MARTIN: So picking up where I left off we are working to implement the new legislative changes including care standards information sharing transition to independence and the increase in age for both care and protection in youth justice children and young people. We are testing a remand option investigation tool that helps agencies provide better information to the Youth Court. We are working with the Pasifika panel to develop the Pasifika strategy around practice placements and partnerships. We are also working between my role in Minister for Children and Associate Minister of Education around the support for children with high learning needs that are often also Oranga Tamariki children and as Minister for Children I am also co-lead of the child well-being strategy. [Interruption] SPEAKER: Order!Hon Alfred Ngaro: Which of the 10 building blocks in the Children's Convention Monitoring Group report released today does she intend to implement?Hon TRACEY MARTIN: We have actually with the child well-being strategy started to implement or will be implementing one of the major building blocks that has been required of this Government after the last 25 years of being a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC). This Government is also committed to making major progress on children's well-being and reducing child poverty; our Child Poverty Reduction Bill addresses this. We have also established a royal commission to investigate historic abuse and violence towards children in State care and our Families Package will bump up the incomes of many families. We want New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child and we take our commitment to UNCROC seriously.Hon Alfred Ngaro: Does that include recommendation No. 5 which says in 5.1 to Develop a child rights and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)-compliant data infrastructure that generates high quality disaggregated data which is used to inform policies legislation and practices."?Hon TRACEY MARTIN: This Government is actually working in a large area around how Government departments use monitor collect and interact with each other around the use of data. We are breaking down silos for the betterment of our children.Hon Alfred Ngaro: How disappointed is she that to date there has been no work in progressing the social investment agency under this new Government which is vital to implementing recommendation No. 5? Hon TRACEY MARTIN: I think that's a matter of perspective as to whether there's only one way to implement that particular goal but I would say I am disappointed that after nine years this Government in only five months has probably done more for our children. Hon Alfred Ngaro: How does she expect to handle the increase in the number of children and young people in care and protection without implementing recommendation No. 5 and also recommendation No. 6 which focuses on budgeting? Hon TRACEY MARTIN: The member suggests and has questioned that we are not addressing those recommendations. We just may not be addressing them in the way he may want us to do so."