Claire Achmad

Guest writer

Dr Claire Achmad is CEO of Social Service Providers Te Pai Ora o Aotearoa, the collective membership-based organisation for community-based social service providers working alongside children, rangatahi and whānau throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a children’s rights advocate.

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Aotearoa’s ‘hidden heroes’ are being stretched to their limits

For too long, social services kaimahi have been an underpaid, under-recognised and undervalued workforce.

By Claire Achmad | 16th May, 2023

Photo: Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy

Free school lunches is just part of something much, much bigger

Last week saw the publication of the new Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy, on which the future of New Zealand quite literally depends.

By Claire Achmad | 4th September, 2019