Oranga Tamariki (OT) is investigating yet another incident involving an employee at one of its troubled youth justice facilities.
It comes after Newshub was sent a video of a worker with alleged youth offenders, who can be seen pulling gang signs and drinking.
The Snapchat video shows an employee at Christchurch's Te Puna Wai ō Tuhinapo youth justice residence hanging out with young people and pulling gang signs. The group appears inebriated and one of the young people can be seen drinking.
The person who sent the video claims the young people are youth offenders who had recently been in OT custody.
"The thing for me is we have to demonstrate leadership... and that's not leadership," National Urban Māori Authority's Lady Tueriti Moxon said of the video.
OT said the incident happened outside work but Te Puna Wai's manager said the allegations of inappropriate behaviour are being investigated and taken seriously.
"We have to make sure we've got the right training in place because young people that have trauma in their life tend to push people away, tend to react in different ways that another young person," ACT Childrens' spokesperson Karen Chhour said.
According to OT, the incident did not involve any young people who are engaged with Te Puna Wai. After seeking clarification, Newshub was told this meant the young people in the video are not "currently" engaged with OT.
However, a spokeswoman said that wasn't to say the young people in the video had never been engaged with OT. She would not confirm or deny whether they had ever been engaged with OT.
"I was involved in the care system over 20 years ago and we're seeing the same problems," Chhour said. "That's just not good enough."
It comes just months after Newshub exclusively revealed staff facilitated MMA fights at Korowai Manaaki, a youth justice residence in Auckland.
The mother of a former resident also said her son was paid in chocolate to take punches.
It all comes after multiple escapes by youths at both Te Puna Wai and Korowai Manaaki.
A review was announced in June and, since then, 46 complaints have been laid, 22 staff have been stood down and three have been charged.
"History continues to repeat itself and it doesn't matter who's at the helm - which Government is in power and which Government isn't," Lady Tueriti said.
