Editorial

Abstract

The people of Aotearoa/New Zealand are engaged with, and variously in support of a range of government, voluntary sector and private enterprise formal and informal programmes designed to in various ways alleviate their concerns and difficulties or enhance their social wellbeing. These are embedded in a broader ‘policy space’ in which ideas, research efforts  and appropriate social facts monitor existing programmes and agitate over their fate and the  possibilities of new ones. This journal aims to tap into such debates and to promote research to finesse policy ideas.