Ward 24
Sir, —In whose interests is the Department of Social Welfare’s initiation of legal action against TVNZ for its programme exposing a bungled child abuse case? Certainly not the family concerned, which had actually given permission for its name to be used. The only other interests to be protected appear to be the power and position of the depart-
ment and the police. Taxpayers’ money would be better spent compensating this and other families traumatised by such bureaucratic blunders than in trying to prevent the media from exposing these tragedies. The allegation by one of these fathers that a social welfare worker told his wife to divorce him, otherwise she would never see her children again, deserves urgent investigation, and is of much more importance than upholding the law that muzzles media reporting of such cases. — Yours, etc.,
M. VINEY. June 24, 1989.
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