Social Investment 2.0: The answer to lifting up our most deprived, or a Trojan Horse for smaller government and privatising services?

Derek Cheng
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Senior Writer·NZ Herald·
16 mins to read
Social Investment 2.0: The answer to lifting up our most deprived, or a Trojan Horse for smaller government and privatising services?
Social Investment holds the promise to do what past governments have failed to do - break the cycle of poverty and disadvantage and change the trajectory of people's lives for the better. But will it work?

ANALYSIS

The Government is readying Social Investment 2.0, aiming to target society’s most vulnerable from an early age before they’re lost to the wrong side of the tracks. It should be win-win - for the person whose life trajectory is altered for the better, and for saving money otherwise

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