Tania Sawicki Mead: UNICEF Aotearoa Director of Communications on New Zealand's child suicide rate

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Signs of systemic failures when it comes to our children.

UNICEF's Innocenti research reveals New Zealand's recorded the highest child suicide rate of 36 countries, and ranks last for mental wellbeing.

It also finds we have one of the highest rates of child obesity and bullying.

UNICEF Aotearoa's Tania Sawicki Mead told Ryan Bridge that although some of the decrease in life satisfaction can be attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic, it wasn’t the only factor.

She says that the suicide rate didn’t shift significantly enough over the period pre- or post-Covid to make a dent in the statistics.

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