: | NZ Herald | Michael Morrah | Oranga Tamariki received a complaint about Gloriavale parents suffocating children eight years ago but concluded their investigation with police without taking any formal enforcement action, the Herald can reveal. Instead, social welfare workers and police spoke to senior leaders about “safe parenting techniques”. That’s despite…
: | NZ Herald | Neil Reid | As education bosses consider the future of Gloriavale’s private school, one of the commune’s highest-profile leavers has spoken of how schooling for girls focused on “what a woman’s place was”. Last month the Ministry of Education (MOE) put leaders of Gloriavale on notice that it…
: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | The Ministry of Education is reviewing Gloriavale Christian School’s response to officials’ concerns as it weighs up the school’s future. Secretary for Education Ellen MacGregor-Reid wrote to the private school last month advising she was considering cancelling its registration after a second failed Education Review Office…
: | The Timaru Herald | Rachael Comer | More than two years after the Timaru-based trust, which works to support Gloriavale leavers, launched a project to transform two 40-foot shipping containers into offices and meeting rooms, the buildings have been officially opened. The project completion celebration, on Saturday, was also…
: | Lane Neave | The Gloriavale situation is a great example of how wrongly categorising your employees, or failing to pay minimum entitlements correctly, could potentially be financially disastrous. In late October, the Court of Appeal heard an appeal against a 2023 Employment Court judgment that six former residents of…
: | RNZ | Jean Edwards | Gloriavale has been given another week to respond to Ministry of Education concerns about student safety, as officials consider closing the West Coast Christian community’s school. Secretary for Education Ellen MacGregor-Reid wrote to the private school last month, advising that she was considering cancelling…
: | NZ Herald | Neil Reid | Gloriavale has been given a seven-day extension to provide education officials with a response why the religious commune’s private school should be allowed to remain open. The Ministry of Education (MOE) last month put Gloriavale on notice that its school was on the…
: | NZ Herald | Neil Reid | West Coast schools are investigating how they will upscale and absorb the children of Gloriavale if the Government decides to close the religious commune’s school. Commune leaders have a hard deadline of tomorrow to convince the Ministry of Education (MoE) that its extreme…
: | RNZ | Bill Hickman | People born into the Gloriavale community are trapped into a working structure resembling “a sweatshop”, lawyers for former members say. But counsel for the Christian community told the Court of Appeal this week that members did not expect to be paid, and were supported…
