Poll of 40 agencies finds consistent backing for boosting income support to the needy.

Govt needs to lift benefits and build more houses, Children's Commissioner says.

Child advocates say there is 'immediate, severe need, and children cannot wait'.

Child poverty trends suggest a need for the "transformational" policies promised in 2017.

Campaigners now want higher weekly payments and more flexibility for partners.

A survey has found a huge digital divide between schoolchildren in rich and poor areas.

School boards glad to lose "compliance" role so they can focus on students.

We were world leaders on social security in 1938. We can be so again, argues Mike O'Brien

Taskforce members propose reshaping education agencies to strengthen links among schools.

National MP's bill to change school decile system missing the point

Child Poverty Action Group says the National Party "methodically" reduced welfare.

Urgent cross-party talks are needed to help end child poverty, group says.

Jacinda Ardern wants to reduce child poverty. Simon Collins explores how she can do it.

Malnutrition is putting twice as many kids in hospital now compared to ten years ago

Poor nutrition and inadequate housing put children at risk of mental health problems.

Warning for parents amid cases of children being left alone: 'We're not a daycare.'

Child advocates call for access to be simplified

A brief liaison with a man she didn't know cost a young Auckland woman $28 a week off her benefit for two years.

More than 20,000 students are missing out on student allowances because of tighter eligibility rules since 2010, a new report says.

The In Work Tax Credit fails children and is a policy that cannot be justified, writes Michael Timmins. Its operation is so complicated and ultimately punitive in that its costs outweigh any supposed benefits.

The Government's 2015 Budget had at its centerpiece a push towards "compassionate conservatism", writes Michael Timmins. While more compassion is indeed welcome, the end result is mere tokenism.

A group which campaigns against child poverty says while it is heartening to see an increase in beneficiary incomes for the first time in over 40 years, there is still work to be done.

Child poverty campaigners say the Budget has “broken the mould” of austerity – but say any fiscal surpluses in the next few years should be used to relieve the country’s unjust “social deficit”, not to cut taxes.

An 8-year-old Manurewa boy is one of 11,000 disabled children to lose a welfare benefit, even though his asthma is so bad that he missed one in every four school days.

The latest figures show nearly one quarter of our 1.1 million children under 18 live in households with very low incomes after housing costs.

We are already paying for the offspring of poverty, writes Lucy Lawless. Hungry kids are sick kids - so feeding them in schools is a smart strategy.