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What is the Green Paper for Vulnerable Children about? The Government has launched a discussion paper to give people and communities a say on how New Zealand can better protect abused, neglected and disadvantaged children. Positition paper The Children’s Commissioner has issued a Position Paper - read it here. Text summary and questions posed The following is a simplified version of the text headings and questions raised in the text as a quick reference. Download it here. Response review A request for submissions for the drafting of the Green Paper was issued. To read a review of the submissions received, click here. Additional information Arising from the Green Paper the Maori sub Committee of Parliament created its own Inquiry. The following documents are the submissions by children's rights activist Mr Peter Shuttleworth in response, which can be used as background for work on indigenous people: Submission 1 and Submission 2.