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Te Hurihanga - Examining the Costs
With the government about to scrap Te Hurihanga, our best youth offender reform programme that has proven to be a world leader, citing excessive costs as the reasoning, I thought I would write a piece evaluating those cited costs.
The result is an evaluation that shows the government to be misleading the public somewhat. It seems it is probably more of a political move than about trying to save money.
Here's my post: http://bit.ly/aLvcFR
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Permalink Reply by Ben Clark on -
Good post! (Nice looking blog too!) I'd like to have seen more about this in the media - it seems we're losing a world leading facility, that would have saved a lot of heartache for a lot of victims, offenders and their families. And as you point out, would have saved a lot of money as well. Crime and punishment costs an awful lot, so we can afford to spend a bit on preventing it and still be on a winner.
And of course a pilot programme is going to cost a lot more than once it is up and running...
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Permalink Reply by Frank Ritchie on -
Thanks, Ben.
I entirely agree.... these are where Labour could be landing some good shots on National... but they seem to be struggling to get any traction - I say let Andrew Little at em! The media will give him attention as soon as he enters parliament.
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