Turner: CYFS knocks back quality help for kids
As CYFS continues to flounder, leaving children's lives in tatters, non-government agencies stand by ready and willing
to intervene, United Future's family affairs spokeswoman, Judy Turner, said today.
"Some 99 percent of the 4595 unallocated cases as of January this year are officially in the lower level of criticality
- precisely where early intervention from skilled community agencies could make all the difference in the world," Mrs
Turner said, after tackling Social Development Minister Ruth Dyson in Parliament yesterday. . "But today's non-critical
cases going unattended are tomorrow's catastrophic child killings.
"And yet, we still have the Government paying lip service to actually addressing the fact that CYFS is dead on its
feet," she said.