Anusha Bradley

ACC faces mounting costs to pay compensation to child sex abuse survivors.

The man's lawyer said while the legal stoush was ongoing there had been no change in the man's living situation.

Hospital outsourcing contracts have tended to be short-term, but Health Minister Simeon Brown has made a new request. Audio

When Andrew Hoggard announced NZ would set its own infant formula standard, he knew it would be "complex", "costly" and "require significant resources".

Doctors have raised ethical and logistical concerns about allowing publicly-paid surgical registrars to essentially provide free labour to private hospitals.

If thousands of straightforward operations are performed in private hospitals, trainee surgeons will have limited learning opportunities, officials say. Audio

The agency will return its focus to victims of crime, with a new provider appointed to support those impacted by suicide.

And it also plans to ask surgeons to work longer hours in a bid to cut the waitlist. Audio

The industry body representing the companies even met with NZ diplomats in Geneva to raise its concerns about marketing restrictions.

The formula companies wanted the government to opt out of tougher regulation, but now they want back in. Audio

Food Safety Minister Andrew Hoggard said he managed the conflict of interest appropriately.

Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake. Audio

RNZ reported last month the country had no specialists available to look after kids needing palliative care as the only publicly-funded expert was on leave.

The agency said it was advertising for a specialist doctor for dying children, but there were no ads online until after the shortage was revealed publicly. Audio

The Children's Commissioner has called the situation "untenable, inequitable and inadequate". Audio

Jay is sensitive to sound, but is locked in a compulsory care unit right next to a construction site.

It comes after the Ministry for Primary Industries withdrew most of the charges.

Demand for mental health specialist services is rising. So why are fewer people being treated now than just a few years ago? Audio

Critics say the money would have been better spent training more workers, including much-needed psychiatrists.

The anonymised database is crucial to the government's social investment approach to funding programmes - but was incapable of doing so without extra investment.

It's one of most challenging things I've ever done, and it literally changed my mind, writes Anusha Bradley.

The "prevention support" would be targeted at primary school-age children, but the police minister will not say if the idea is being progressed.

It's tasked with protecting our smallest, most vulnerable New Zealanders. Yet report after report points out the same problems. Audio

The Independent Children's Monitor says it cannot determine if there have been improvements since a 2020 report found both practices were used inappropriately. Audio

A family living in fear of their young son's increasingly dangerous behaviour asked for support. Instead, the agency turned its focus on his mum.