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• Council leads the way in commitment to accessibility for all

  Posted: Thursday, November 07, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: accessibility, disabilities, policy
  Selwyn District Council media release: 6th November 2019 Selwyn District Council has laid a marker in its commitment to all Selwyn residents by becoming the first local government authority to produce its own accessibility charter

• Cruise ships to pay more to visit Akaroa

  Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: funding, policy
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 19th August 2019 Cruise ships berthing in Akaroa will contribute more this summer towards the costs of maintaining the area’s public amenities

• Mayor supports joint initiatives to improve Canterbury water

  Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: water, environment, planning, policy
  Selwyn District Council media release: 22nd July 2019 Selwyn Mayor Sam Broughton and other Canterbury mayors have reconfirmed their support for working together on looking after the region’s water resources

• OCC Report: Children's participation rights in Government policy

  Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: children, Report, participation, community engagement, young people, policy, legislation
  Are We Listening? reports from the Children's Convention Monitoring Group on how well the NZ Government is implementing the Children’s Convention in relation to children’s participation rights

• Measuring deprivation in the Canterbury region

  Posted: Thursday, March 28, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: presentation, information, poverty, policy
  Child Poverty Action Group has produced a series of regional profiles for Nelson-Marlborough, Canterbury, Northland and Otago from The New Zealand Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) and will be sharing them with the public at a series of presentations be

• Release of Living Standards Framework Dashboard welcomed

  Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: wellbeing, health determinants, planning, policy
  Beehive media release: 4th December 2018 Finance Minister Grant Robertson has welcomed the Treasury’s release of its Living Standards Framework (LSF) Dashboard

• Changes to drinking water standards will help keep New Zealanders healthy

  Posted: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: water, safety, policy
  Beehive media release: 20th November 2018 Minister of Health David Clark is making changes to Drinking Water Standards which help keep New Zealanders safe from waterborne illness

• CPAG launches Welfare fit for Families campaign

  Posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: campaign, poverty, support, families, welfare, policy
  Child Poverty Action Group media release: 6th September 2018 What will it take to ensure that all children living in Aotearoa-New Zealand have all their wellbeing needs met? Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says when families fall on hard times, they s

• Action plan to tackle alcohol-related harm

  Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: planning, alcohol, harm, injury prevention, policy
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 15th August 2018 A city free from alcohol-related harm is the vision behind a new strategy launched in Christchurch

• More commitment by local government needed to achieve Smokefree 2025

  Posted: Thursday, March 29, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: planning, research, smokefree, policy
  University of Otago media release: 29th March 2018 New University of Otago research shows that there needs to be more commitment by local government to help achieve central government’s Smokefree 2025 goal

• Christchurch City Council signs Accessibility Charter

  Posted: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: accessibility, disabilities, older people, policy
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 6th November 2017 A ground-breaking charter aimed at making Christchurch more accessible for the aged and the disabled has been signed by Christchurch City Council

• Changes proposed to Provisional Local Alcohol Policy

  Posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: alcohol, law, policy
  Christchurch City Council media release: 3rd October 2016 Christchurch City Council has been given permission to alter elements of its provisional Local Alcohol Policy (LAP)

• Bus shelters and Council buildings go Smokefree

  Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: smokefree, policy
  Christchurch City Council media release: 4th June 2015 Bus shelters across Christchurch, and entrances and exits to Christchurch City Council-owned buildings will be Smokefree after two Council committees endorsed changes to policy today