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Published: 23 May, 2024

“Pacific peoples don’t have access to the essential building blocks they need to ensure they can thrive in Aotearoa.

Published: May 2026

to their communities and their cultures, and they need resources, skills, resilience, hope and purpose for the future.

Published: 10 July, 2023

Practices that need to change now under the current Mental Health Act 1992: We want to see a reduction in the number of applications and outcomes granted for CCTOs, and a reduction in the rate of CCTO use. We want to see a reduction in the inequitable use of CCTOs for Māori and Pacific.

Published: November 2023

This is a comprehensive set of activities to help close gender, Māori, Pacific and ethnic pay gaps in the Public Service. Under Kia Toipoto, agencies and entities with at least 20 employees in each comparative group are to publish their pay gaps, while also protecting the privacy of employees.

Published: January 2024

Lived experience perspectives and knowledge is important in all of our work. The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Act that established Te Hiringa Mahara requires our Board to include people with personal experience of mental distress and addiction at the governance level.

Published: 20 May, 2025

The Committee’s report refers to a proposal to replace compulsory community treatment orders with community support commitments. As recommended in our submission, we would still like to see a sunset clause to achieve an end to seclusion.

Published: 20 April, 2026

“We need to see a shift in the system to ensure human rights are upheld in practice. A new Mental Health Act is needed to support the reduction and ultimately the end of seclusion and enable clear pathways for safe and rights-based alternatives.

Published: 6 July, 2026

"Importantly, through implementation of the law we expect to see a reduction in the use of coercive practices and support for better outcomes for people and those who support them." "We are pleased to see that people under 18 cannot be held in seclusion under this new legislation."

Published: 16 June, 2022

Change is happening in pockets. Zero seclusion: Safety and Dignity for All is a joint project between the Health Quality & Safety Commission, Te Pou, and DHBs (soon to be Health New Zealand).

Published: 10 July, 2023

  People in mental distress and their whānau do not feel heard in clinical review and court processes that lead to enforced treatment a report released today by Te Hiringa Mahara – Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission shows.