New disability system a step closer
Hon Nicky Wagner
Minister for Disability Issues
Associate Minister of Health
20 July 2017
New disability system a step closer
Disability Issues and Associate Health Minister Nicky Wagner says a hard-working and talented group has produced a high-level design for the transformed disability support system.
“The co-design group, which includes disabled people, worked intensively over several months to create and shape the framework for this new system,” Ms Wagner says.
“Disabled people are experts in their own lives. They’ve been the driving force behind this transformation and instrumental in its design. This is a great example of ‘nothing about us, without us’.”
The new system will include:
· An
information hub with a number of ways to make contact and be
contacted;
· Capability funding for disabled
people and whānau to build their skills;
· A
new funding model which reduces assessment and provides
opportunities for investment, as well as increasing choice
and control;
· Support to expand peer and
whānau networks;
· An easy to use information
collection tool which tracks how things are going for
disabled people, whānau, providers and the system;
·
A personal information profile managed by disabled people
and whanau;
· A monitoring approach which
reduces compliance and is proportionate to the amount of
funding people receive; and
· National and local
governance groups with disabled people and whānau
representatives.
“Disabled people will experience a real and meaningful difference with the new system. There will be a lot less red tape, more choice about the support on offer, and a range of easy ways to find information through peer or whānau networks and online,” Ms Wagner says.
Work will now begin on the detailed design, which will roll out first in Mid-Central — Palmerston North, Horowhenua, Manawatu, Otaki and Tararua districts — on July 1, 2018.
“There will be more opportunities for disabled people and others from the disability sector to contribute to the detailed design, and we’re looking at how to do that,” Ms Wagner says.
For more information, visit: http://www.enablinggoodlives.co.nz/system-transformation/
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