Stories by Anusha Bradley

Colleagues were so alarmed they wrote an open letter and left it lying around the office.

When a Covid vaccination social media campaign finally got underway in earnest, almost all the people it was trying to convince had already been vaccinated.

After a two-year wait to clear his name, lawyer Garth Gallaway says the profession's complaints system needs a complete overhaul.

Fish and Game New Zealand's chairperson Ray Grubb has resigned amid an independent investigation into allegations of bullying behaviour.

WorkSafe is accused of turning a blind eye to two companies found to be illegally storing potentially catastrophic amounts of explosive substances.

The agency will need to help all injured people - not just those who make a claim - under new legislation to be introduced to Parliament on Friday.

A principal of a school where multiple bullying allegations were made over several years was challenged about "disappointing" spending on the school's credit card.

A school accused of failures over repeated playground sexual incidents faces further allegations of ignoring or minimising bullying complaints.

When children say they are coerced into sexualised encounters at school, parents expect a response from the school's leaders. For two families, it's been a long struggle.

The country's health and safety targets have been scrapped and the regulator's performance measures changed after it failed to meet most of them.

A report which found the country's health and safety regulator lacks a clear strategy and cannot say if it is effective is "shocking", the National Party says.

WorkSafe lacks a clear strategy and it cannot say if its activities are cost effective or reducing workplace harm, an independent review has found.

Eighty-seven people have died in their homes from Covid-19 since March 2022 and public health experts want the deaths investigated.

A lack of funding is forcing WorkSafe to reduce its focus on adventure activities, and it is unable to hold some companies that break health and safety laws to account.

ACC clients and advocates are welcoming a damning report that found ACC lacks a strong privacy culture. Audio

An independent investigator has been appointed to assess whether there were conflicts of interest involving a Te Hiringa Hauora/Health Promotion Agency staff member.

The benefits of a budget-blowing restructure of the way ACC manages claims are still "unclear", a return on investment by 2030 is uncertain and minor privacy breaches have nearly doubled, an internal…

A woman who suffered PTSD after a sex video of her was uploaded to a porn site says it is "disheartening" a group of MPs have decided it is too complex and expensive to extend ACC cover to victims…

A chronically-ill toddler was unduly kept in hospital for months and her mother asked to abandon Covid-19 isolation to come in and nurse her. The child picked up the virus. DHB failures and a staff…

He was lured to New Zealand with promises of money and a better life, but instead he was kept as a slave, repeatedly assaulted and cut off from his family. For the first time, he tells his story.

ACC mixed up the files of two people with similar names and sent the medical notes of one to the other.

ACC has cut the number of staff who can look at sensitive claim files by nearly 40 percent amid a raft of changes to beef up privacy measures at the agency.

ACC has apologised to an abuse survivor after an employee breached her privacy by looking at her sensitive claim while investigating her husband for suspected fraud.

A homeless mother of six young children and a newborn baby says she had no option but to pitch a tent in a Hawke's Bay park during a storm after Work and Income refused to help her.

A new $1.4 million service designed to help people understand ACC's systems and disputes process has failed to achieve many of its objectives, forcing the agency back to the drawing board.