Tom Phillips report: Family warnings ‘brushed aside’, agencies apologise, police get defensive

A public inquiry into the disappearance of the Phillips children has found police and Oranga Tamariki minimised, overlooked and in some cases never read warnings from the children’s mother and older sisters before their father took them into the bush for four years, writes Henry…

Government agencies apologised to his children for "significant failures" in response to their disappearance, but have yet to meet with the whānau.