Warkworth Homebuilders left in the dark over funding

Homebuilders’ Quentin Jukes said their funding contract had been terminated and was still waiting to see whether it would be reinstated. Homebuilders’ funding contract with Oranga Tamariki, which represented 70 per cent of the provider’s annual budget (MM, Aug 19), was terminated on February 5 – around six months before it was supposed to end. This was one of Oranga Tamariki’s many funding cuts after the coalition government reduced its contracting budget by $30 million. As a result, Homebuilders has needed to make nearly half of its seven staff redundant, with three full-time roles axed, whil...