When planning and visiting a community, we follow our monitoring phases which outline how we engage.
There are seven key phases, with whanaungatanga, woven throughout. This is an iterative approach designed to help us continuously learn, adapt and improve our monitoring practice.
Whanaungatanga is about people and connections and is the foundation that supports everything that we do. When we apply whanaungatanga, we build safe, respectful, and reciprocal relationships and connections with others. These relationships enable us to actively listen and provide opportunities for people to share their experiences with us.
Hōkaitanga is the process of refining and agreeing our areas of focus for a monitoring visit. This informs our schedule of activity, including where in the community we we will go and who we will seek to hear from.
Our whakaaro phase outlines the things we must do when conducting our monitoring and gathering information from communities. Our applies to all our kamahi when in communities.
Tātari is the time where we prepare our information for coding and how we share the findings of engagements with the communities we have visited.
Whakamahi is the process of closing the loop between the Monitor and those we speak to during our engagements. This is a time for sharing back to communities and thanking those that have shared their voices with us.
Whakamahi is also a time for us to reflect as a team through the process of Kia Huritao.
When we write our reports, we are analysing the data we have received and the information we have gathered from across the motu (country). We think about the insights we have gathered and how this information can be presented.
Once complete, our reports are provided to the Minister for Children (and other Ministers), tabled in Parliament and published on this website.
Turukitanga is when we reflect on what we have learned along the way about how well the oranga tamariki system is promoting well-being of , and .
