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The Oranga Tamariki child welfare agency has apologized for accidentally sending an email with details about the alleged suicide of a teenager to a Things reporter.
The email was sent by an Oranga Tamariki senior advisor on Thursday and included the name of the teenager and other family members.
Things has deleted the email and will not publish any identifying data of the correspondence.
Oranga Tamariki Business Support and Implementation General Manager Sandra Coleman apologized and said the Privacy Commissioner will be notified.
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“A staff member accidentally sent an email containing confidential content to a Things reporter, ” he said.
“The error was noticed in minutes and we took steps to rectify what happened. This included contacting the Things reporter, who assured us that they would not use the content. “
The incident was also reported to the department’s privacy team, which was “working on an appropriate course of action from here,” Coleman said.
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Grainne Moss will speak in Wellington for the state agency’s urgent investigation.
The child welfare agency made headlines once again this week after Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft released a report calling for reform on the way it handles cases involving Maori children.
The report responds to the attempt to separate a Maori baby from his mother at Hastings Hospital last year.
The report called for an end to the lifting of Maori babies from hospitals and maternity wards.
