With the new school year about to begin KidsCan has 14 more schools and 1,661 children from the Coromandel to Christchurch waiting to benefit from its support programmes.
Social Development Minister Anne Tolley says that the Nitbusters programme, which provides free head lice treatment to families in low decile schools, is to continue in 2016.
The Annual Child Poverty Monitor is a partnership project between the Children’s Commissioner, the JR McKenzie Trust and Otago University measuring and reporting on child poverty rates in New Zealand annually.
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