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Speaker 1: I might have a win with new numbers around youth

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Speaker 1: offending showing it's down fourteen point six percent compared to

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Speaker 1: June of twenty three, Northland seen of forty percent drop.

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Speaker 1: Orkands down fourteen Karen Chaws, the Children's Minister of course

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Speaker 1: enders with us, Karen morning.

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Speaker 2: I'm morning. How are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed, how much of this as ram raids, like because

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Speaker 1: we don't ram raid much anymore, that numbers naturally dropped.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a big part of it. I don't

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Speaker 2: have the percentage in front of me, but ram raids

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Speaker 2: have dropped by eighty two percent, and we do know

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Speaker 2: that that a small group of young people are causing

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Speaker 2: a large problem within our communities. So this isn't a

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Speaker 2: massive problem, and so we're focusing on the small group

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Speaker 2: of serious, persistent youth offenders and it's starting to work good.

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Speaker 1: So this is the repeat of fending is down. But

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Speaker 1: one of the in your press release you're claiming boot camps.

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Speaker 1: Correct me if I'm wrong. The boot camps haven't even started.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but we did run a pilot and we had

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Speaker 2: a lot of learnings from that pilot that we're now

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Speaker 2: using within our work. Pro working with the community, working

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Speaker 2: with the families, making sure that we have good wrap

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Speaker 2: around service with young people when they're going back to

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Speaker 2: the homes, back into their homes. So whilst the military

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Speaker 2: style academy hasn't started for the program within the youth

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Speaker 2: justice facilities, it doesn't mean that we haven't taken some

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Speaker 2: of those learnings and put it into our work program.

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Speaker 1: I've also, I'm quoting you, I've also been informed that

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Speaker 1: repeat young offenders are avoiding reoffending because they know courts

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Speaker 1: are rung a tamariki and police are working together more closely.

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Speaker 1: Is that anecdotal or is that real?

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm hearing out in the community. I'm hearing

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Speaker 2: that the consistent message from Auto Atomitiki, police and other

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Speaker 2: agencies that the message is out there that young people

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Speaker 2: know now that they're not untouchable and that there will

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Speaker 2: be consequences of their offending.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now, the variation and region so forty percent, Northland

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Speaker 1: thirty six, Tasman twenty eight, Wellingtons seventeen Wykatto. Can you

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Speaker 1: explain that, is that a different approach from the police

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Speaker 1: and ot or there was more crime in some areas

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Speaker 1: than others or what's going on there.

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Speaker 2: We've had focus in some areas where we knew there

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Speaker 2: was a big problem, where communities were telling us this

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Speaker 2: was a problem. So there were some regions where where

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Speaker 2: tables were set up with cross agency approaches around the table.

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Speaker 2: But what I would say is the fast track, the

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Speaker 2: extension of the fast track that have been set up.

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Speaker 2: I think over multiple communities have really made a difference.

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Speaker 2: In Hamilton wrote to Rua christ Church Auckland, where we

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Speaker 2: have multiple agencies sitting around the table and making quicker,

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Speaker 2: faster decisions about what we're going.

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Speaker 1: To do good Is there more where this came from?

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, we're not going to stop. Whilst fourteen point

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Speaker 2: six percent is a good number and we're a few

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Speaker 2: years ahead of our target, it doesn't mean we stop

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Speaker 2: keep going because communities have told us they felt unsafe

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Speaker 2: and this is a problem that needed to be fixed,

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Speaker 2: and I campaigned on making sure there were consequences for

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Speaker 2: young people. But we also need to make sure that

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Speaker 2: we've got good rehabilitation there so that we're not getting

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Speaker 2: this repeat of ending good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Caaren appreciate it. Karen Shaw Children's Minister, one of the

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Speaker 1: better ones.

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