{"id":374040,"date":"2026-04-11T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374040\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:32:09","slug":"young-people-come-down-from-roof-of-youth-justice-residence-in-south-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374040\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people come down from roof of youth justice residence in South Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4KEBIF1_PD311224YOUTH06_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"706\" alt=\"Youths on the roof at Korowai Manaaki youth justice facility, Wiri, South Auckland, 31 December 2024.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nOranga Tamariki said there has been some damage to the residence.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/Peter de Graaf\n<\/p>\n<p>A group of young people on the rooftop of a youth justice residence in the South Auckland suburb of Wiri have come down.<\/p>\n<p>They accessed the rooftop of Korowai Manaaki residence around 11am on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Children, Karen Chhour, thanked Oranga Tamariki, police and Fire and Emergency for resolving the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The efforts and professional coordination of the people on the ground have allowed for an effective and efficient handling of the situation. You have all done an excellent job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am relieved that there were no concerns for public safety, and that all the young people remained within the confines of the facility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oranga Tamariki earlier said there had been some damage to the residence, but the rest of the site was secure. It added there was no risk to public safety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oranga Tamariki said there has been some damage to the residence. Photo: RNZ\/Peter de Graaf A group of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-374040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}