<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-page-title"><h1>Auckland Council to implement Te Reo Policy </h1>
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<span class="gmail-submitted">Friday, 2 September, 2016 - 11:56</span>
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<p>Independent MÄ ori Statutory Board urges Council to Implement Te Reo Policy quickly.</p>
<p>The Independent MÄ ori Statutory Board welcomes the adoption of the
MÄ ori Language Policy and MÄ ori Language Implementation Plan
2016-2019, by the Auckland Council Regional Strategy and Policy
Committee yesterday, and calls on the Council to expedite its
implementation.</p>
<p>Independent MÄ ori Statutory Board Deputy Chair, Glenn Wilcox, says
while the Board is pleased the Council has finally adopted a Te Reo
policy, the accompanying implementation plan is light on detail and will
need fleshing out, which the Board urges the Council to advance as soon
as possible.</p>
<p>"The Board identified the need for a MÄ ori Language Policy in its
first Te Tiriti o Waitangi Audit in 2012. It has taken Council four
years to develop a Te Reo policy and bring it to Council for adoption.
This is indicative of the speed with which the 24 audit action group
recommendations currently before the Council are taking to be addressed.
To date only 5 have been signed off as complete.</p>
<p>"The recent establishment of Te Toa Takitini, a cross-council
executive working group to respond to matters MÄ ori, has done much to
improve the speed with which the recommendations of the 2012 and 2015
Treaty Audits are being addressed, however, there is still much work to
be done and Council needs to pick up the pace on delivering on its
responsibilities.</p>
<p>"The incoming Board will continue to work closely with Council to
ensure that it meets its statutory obligations to MÄ ori in ways that
are effective and timely," Chair, David Taipari says. He says the
adoption of the MÄ ori Language Policy yesterday affords Council a
perfect opportunity to demonstrate that it takes its legislative
obligations and commitments to MÄ ori detailed in the Auckland Plan,
seriously.</p>
<p>"The key Auckland Plan outcome relevant to the revitalisation of the
MÄ ori language is A MÄ ori identity that is Auckland’s point of
difference in the world. The implementation of the MÄ ori Language
policy is critical to Council delivering on the Auckland Plan. The Board
expects to be working closely with the Council and mana whenua groups
to see effective implementation of the MÄ ori Language Policy," David
Taipari says.</p> </div><a href="http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/261799">http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/261799</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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