Story: Voluntary welfare organisations

Plunket Line cuts

Plunket Line, a Plunket Society initiative providing telephone advice on child health issues to parents, suffered a setback in 2006 when its government funding was withdrawn. Instead the government began funding another 24-hour telephone health advice line.

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Margaret Tennant, 'Voluntary welfare organisations - The 21st century', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/video/29101/plunket-line-cuts (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Margaret Tennant, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 18 Sep 2018