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Child poverty in Bay

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16 Apr, 2013 08:59 PMQuick Read

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Child poverty is widespread in Tauranga, though much of it is hidden from view, a local social worker says.

Te Tuinga Whanau Trust social worker Jena Young said many locals pretended the problem didn't exist: "It is there, it is real".

Children became sick through inadequate housing, lack of medical care and nutrition, Ms Young said.

For a developed country, New Zealand was falling "way behind", she said.

A Unicef report found New Zealand had one of the highest rates of children not in any form of education, training or employment in the developed world.

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The Innocenti Report Card 11, which looks at the state of children in the most advanced economies, found no strong relationship between a country's GDP and overall child wellbeing.

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