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Speaker 1: So Children's Minister Cantour has reversed an orang A Tamaiki

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Speaker 1: decision to pull funding from the Bernardo's helpline. And this

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Speaker 1: comes after olng A Tamariki providers were given very little

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Speaker 1: notice that their funding would end, which resulted in much

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Speaker 1: tears approcessed by the way that the Auditor General is

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Speaker 1: looking into. The Minister has told a Tamariki to pause

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Speaker 1: its review of funding and extend existing contracts with providers

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Speaker 1: until the end of the year. So Bernardo's chief executive

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Speaker 1: Matt Reed joins me, Now, good morning to your matte.

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Speaker 2: Good morning injury.

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Speaker 1: So a reprieve, but you'd probably argue you shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: ever been in danger anyway.

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Speaker 2: Oh Andrew, it's been a really difficult process with a Rangatamriki.

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Speaker 2: But I understand the focus on the corresponsibility. So I've

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Speaker 2: got the nrdest job to do, arguably doing the most

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Speaker 2: important work so that the've you know, there's been a

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Speaker 2: fiscal squeeze and I've had some tough decisions to make,

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Speaker 2: so I do understand.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how are you told about the funding decision being reversed?

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Speaker 2: So I've got an email from the Minister's office yesterday morning.

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Speaker 2: Obviously we were delighted. I eight hundred. What's up as

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Speaker 2: a really important service for five to nineteen year olds

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Speaker 2: doing doing professional counseling for young ones when they need

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Speaker 2: instant support and advice?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And what's it like trying to get a contract

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Speaker 1: from Olang and Tamariki? How torturous is it or not?

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Speaker 2: And again it's been a difficult process around contracting. But

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Speaker 2: again I understand the context. They have a difficult job,

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Speaker 2: but there's only so much money and they are focusing

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Speaker 2: rightfully on care and protection, which is you know, young

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Speaker 2: people in care and FINO young people close to care.

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Speaker 2: So I do understand, and I think the greater challenge

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Speaker 2: here is the whole of government challenge around how these

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Speaker 2: other services, particularly prevention early intervention services get funded again.

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Speaker 1: Fix it at the source and you don't get bigger

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Speaker 1: problems down further down the track. So you've got funding

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Speaker 1: for a year and then the courses up in the

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Speaker 1: air again. So what can you do with that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we need to understand a bit more

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Speaker 2: detail about the announcement yesterday. My reading of it is

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Speaker 2: that the funding form walks up will continue beyond this year,

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Speaker 2: which we're delighted about. For Bernardo's EARTC. We have to

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Speaker 2: raise the other half of the cost of the service

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Speaker 2: ourselves through incredible partners like Milford Foundation in OfficeMax and

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Speaker 2: amazing New Zealanders, and so that call to action is

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Speaker 2: still there from Barnardo's. We still need support to keep

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Speaker 2: this really important service going. Obviously the government decision yesterday

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Speaker 2: has been hugely helpful.

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Speaker 1: This community help and altruism is a good thing. So

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Speaker 1: if someone listening to this wants to give you some

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Speaker 1: money to do the WhatsApp thing, how could they do that?

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Speaker 2: Please look at it. Please look at our website. Contact

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Speaker 2: anyone at Bernardo's contact me personally, but you can go

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Speaker 2: straight to our website and have a look at the

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Speaker 2: firstly the incredible work serving thirteen thousand young people every year,

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Speaker 2: and if you want to support, we would obviously be

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Speaker 2: really thankful for that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Matt, got to work. You've got great work

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Speaker 1: to do, and I thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Matt Reid. He is Bonado's chief executive.

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