Bootcamp bill to have first reading before verdict on 10-boy pilot project

A new bill that will legally label rangatahi as ‘serious young offenders’ and allow them to be sent to military-style academies has been introduced to the House before the Government has had a chance to evaluate the outcomes of its bootcamp pilot.
On Monday, less than a week after Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the acting chief executive of Oranga Tamariki apologised to survivors for the abuse they suffered in state care, the Children’s Minister Karen Chhour introduced her bootcamp bill.