Hekia Parata | Education
Education Ministers Hekia Parata and Dr Pita Sharples have referred matters relating to Te Pataka Ohanga, a private company owned by the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board, to the Serious Fraud Office. Ms Parata and Dr Sharples commissioned Ernst and Young to review the public funding provided to the Trust and establish that there were proper financial controls around the funding for 460 kōhanga centres and the 9,000 children enrolled in them.
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Minister of Education, Dr Pita Sharples have released the independent review of Te Kōhanga Reo National Trust, which shows the Trust’s financial controls are effective. “The Trust receives around $92 million per annum in public funding. It was important, given allegations about inappropriate credit card use at the Trust’s private company Te Pataka Ohanga, to establish that there were proper financial controls around the public funding provided for kōhanga reo,” Ms Parata says. ...
Radio New Zealand
Education Minister Hekia Parata has referred what she describes as unsubstantiated allegations of mis-spending by the commercial arm of theKohanga Reo Trust Board to the Serious Fraud Office. Ms Parata on Tuesday night said an independent audit had ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“This dismal performance comes hard on the heels of her weekend foray into performance-based decile funding, and other disasters such asCharter Schools, National Standards, the Canterbury schools' shambles and the class size debacle. “This is clearly ...
Questions are mounting over the Education Minister's handling of claims of mis-spending by the commercial arm of the Kohanga Reo Trust.
The Kohanga Reo National Trust Board members are gratified by the results of the report commissioned by the Minister of Education, Hon Hekia Parata, into the board’s use of public funds.
The Government is dodging questions about allegations of misspending by a company linked to Kohanga Reo after a press conference tonight where it claimed the firm had been cleared – before admitting none of the claims sparking its inquiry were investigated.
New Zealand Herald
The Kohanga Reo National Trust says it is not responsible for how its wholly owned subsidiary company spends its money. The trust, which was cleared of misusing public monies by an Ernst and Young investigation, is still under fire for the credit card ...
TVNZ
An independent Ernst and Young review into the trust's financial controls was launched in October last year after Lynda Tawhiwhirangi, the general manager of a subsidiary of the Kohanga Reo National Trust, was accused of using work credit cards for ...
Kohanga Reo probe avoids key claims
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Radio New Zealand
Updated about 1 hour ago. Tweet on Twitter Share on Facebook. The Education Minister says an independent review of public funding to TeKohanga Reo National Trust Board has found there was no misuse of public money by the trust. Hekia Parata.
Sunday Star Times
The Government's audit of the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust has been slammed as a "whitewash" by right-wing lobby group the Taxpayers Union. The comments come as the Government dodged questions about allegations of misspending by a company ...
New Zealand Herald
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Maori drop out rate alarms Parata
3News NZ
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Voxy
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