2 Apr 2024

OIA papers reveal Oranga Tamariki trying to overhaul old technology

From Morning Report, 8:28 am on 2 April 2024

A multimillion-dollar IT platform vital to safeguard children at risk of abuse has lurched into the danger zone and had to be reset.

Oranga Tamariki is trying to overhaul technology so old its frontline social workers and analysts cannot get the information they need.

But OIA papers reveal another government IT tangle in the making.

Phil Pennington spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.