Good stuff! There us some very fishy stuff regarding the Gumboot Friday funding, and no amount of doubling down by the Faberge Egg will disperse the whiff of cronyism. A charity that should be a non partisan agency having two CEO's giving flipping great wads of cash to the National war chest is utter bullocks!
Finally, it is great to see a summary piece about Gumboot Friday's government funding. I have also made OIA requests, only to be volleyed between Ministry of Health and Te Whatu Ora, to gain very little information (and actually, the 2021 BusinessDesk article answered most of my questions anyway).
I am a child/adolescent mental health clinician, providing evidence-based therapies and treatment in a specialist youth mental health service. I have been quite outraged at how Mike King has been able to criticise already overwhelmed services, and cry and gain public/media interest to secure more funding for his charity, instead of rallying for the drowning public services. I also don't see him promoting exisiting working primary mental health services that have a high accountability with secondary mental health services. I note that Gumboot Friday found themselves unable to apply for funding for this same contract through an RFP; this begs the question, why does Gumboot Friday receive funding anyway? I'm shocked that this approach has gained funding from differing governments (though potentially only to get the man off their dang backs,). But because it is a youth mental health charity, no one dare says otherwise or looks more critically at this .
Edit: additionally, the govt of the day can therefore use it as clout for their appeal and election promises 🤦🏽♀️ I don't understand how David Seymour, who is constantly wanting things done by the due process, is actually allowing this 🤷🏽♀️
I note Nicola Willis says incautious funding of the shortfalls in health, schools and police risks feeding inflation and debt. Debt – well, obviously, if the remedy applied is borrowing. But I can’t quite understand how better public funding of these essential services would of itself feed inflation. Can anyone explain this for me?
As history shows "incautious" NON-FUNDING of essential services result in greater costs of a) health=people becoming sicker or dying because of delayed treatment b) schools=people unable to get good jobs through lack of appropriate schooling and/or becoming unemployed and/or turning to crime to get the things they need, plus contributing less in taxes c) police=lack of crime prevention/diversion leading to more serious crimes impacting the victims, resulting in more prison time for perpetrators, impacting families of victims and perpetrators - ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE INFLATIONARY & really really bad for both the individuals, and the well being of the country as a whole. HAVEN'T WE LEARNED THIS LESSON OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!???
Good stuff! There us some very fishy stuff regarding the Gumboot Friday funding, and no amount of doubling down by the Faberge Egg will disperse the whiff of cronyism. A charity that should be a non partisan agency having two CEO's giving flipping great wads of cash to the National war chest is utter bullocks!
Finally, it is great to see a summary piece about Gumboot Friday's government funding. I have also made OIA requests, only to be volleyed between Ministry of Health and Te Whatu Ora, to gain very little information (and actually, the 2021 BusinessDesk article answered most of my questions anyway).
I am a child/adolescent mental health clinician, providing evidence-based therapies and treatment in a specialist youth mental health service. I have been quite outraged at how Mike King has been able to criticise already overwhelmed services, and cry and gain public/media interest to secure more funding for his charity, instead of rallying for the drowning public services. I also don't see him promoting exisiting working primary mental health services that have a high accountability with secondary mental health services. I note that Gumboot Friday found themselves unable to apply for funding for this same contract through an RFP; this begs the question, why does Gumboot Friday receive funding anyway? I'm shocked that this approach has gained funding from differing governments (though potentially only to get the man off their dang backs,). But because it is a youth mental health charity, no one dare says otherwise or looks more critically at this .
Edit: additionally, the govt of the day can therefore use it as clout for their appeal and election promises 🤦🏽♀️ I don't understand how David Seymour, who is constantly wanting things done by the due process, is actually allowing this 🤷🏽♀️
I note Nicola Willis says incautious funding of the shortfalls in health, schools and police risks feeding inflation and debt. Debt – well, obviously, if the remedy applied is borrowing. But I can’t quite understand how better public funding of these essential services would of itself feed inflation. Can anyone explain this for me?
As history shows "incautious" NON-FUNDING of essential services result in greater costs of a) health=people becoming sicker or dying because of delayed treatment b) schools=people unable to get good jobs through lack of appropriate schooling and/or becoming unemployed and/or turning to crime to get the things they need, plus contributing less in taxes c) police=lack of crime prevention/diversion leading to more serious crimes impacting the victims, resulting in more prison time for perpetrators, impacting families of victims and perpetrators - ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE INFLATIONARY & really really bad for both the individuals, and the well being of the country as a whole. HAVEN'T WE LEARNED THIS LESSON OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!???
Why is ROI a criteria for funding this but ignored for public transport subsidies, bike path, school meals, and free prescriptions?