Land Information New Zealand

Introduction

Land Information New Zealand’s vision is to be valued as Government’s centre of electronic land information and expertise. Our purpose is to provide people and systems that ensure confidence in the land rights and geographic information underpinning New Zealand as a nation.

Government Departments are required to develop and implement an annual strategy to build toward meeting the New Zealand Disabilities strategy.

This is the fifth year that LINZ has produced a strategy. In previous year’s LINZ Disability Strategy has focussed on:

Corporate Governance – ensuring awareness and responsiveness to disabled people is ‘business as usual’

Workplace environment – enabling disabled people are able to participate productively in the workplace

Recruitment – ensuring recruitment and selection activities are responsive to the needs of disabled people

Accessible Land Information New Zealand - this includes making LINZ ’s website accessible to the standard specified by SSC, and tracking progress on physical accessibility.

Focus of the LINZ 05 – 06 Disability Strategy

This year’s strategy

• Continues work on projects identified in the 2005– 2006 Disability Strategy, and
• Focuses on widening the role of managers in disability issues, including increasing awareness and developing annual work plans.

Strategic Linkages

This strategy supports LINZ’s contribution to the achievement of several government goals.

• Strengthen national identity and uphold the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi
• Grow an inclusive, innovative economy for the benefit of all
• Improve New Zealanders’ skills
• Reduce inequalities in health, education, employment and housing
  

This strategy links to LINZ ’s Statement of Intent:

• LINZ will
• continue to deliver and improve our core business functions, and to
• use our expertise and land information to work effectively with other government agencies and to achieve visible results for New Zealand in the areas of economic development and safety at sea.

LINZ’s Vision, Purpose and Values are the heart of how we do business. LINZ has establish ed four values:

Certainty - LINZ can be relied on to deliver its outcomes professionally:

• All staff are seen to be treated equally and consistently

Integrity - being honest and open in our work practices, doing the best we can

• Leading by example
• Respect for others’ values

Adaptability - we strengthen our capabilities so we stay ahead of the game

• Being open-minded

Kotahitanga - the well-being of staff, the business and our stakeholders, can be demonstrated by:

• Looking for opportunities to assist others
• Accepting diversity and difference.

These values underpin the Core competenciesfor all staff. The core competencies of particular relevance to the NZDS are:

Customer Focus

• meets the needs, requirements and expectations of internal and external customers

Self Knowledge

• Knows what their skills are and where they need to develop

Work Life Balance

• Maintains balance between work and personal life.

Level 1 Activities: Universal responsiveness to disability issues

Accessible government information		Achieved / available	Planned this year	N/A
Agency’s websites
	Meet e-government Web-Guidelines 2.1		June 2007
	Tested for accessibility for disabled people		June 2007
	Adapted to increase accessibility to disabled people		June 2007
	Downloadable files available in HTML, not only PDF	Proceeding	June 2007
Other publications and public information available in alternative formats. (eg key information available in easy-to-read English, Braille, NZSL video clips, captions on TV adverts, etc)				N/A
Agency makes available alternative forms of contact (ie phone and fax numbers, email addresses, etc)		See note below
LINZ has an internet redevelopment project scheduled to run for the 2006/2007 year. This will make LINZ e-govt compliant, thus enhancing access for disabled people.

Accessible government buildings and sites		Achieved / available	Planned this year	N/A
All agency’s buildings and sites meet statutory and regulatory access requirements (eg NZS 4121)		Achieved
Agency’s buildings and sites have Building Code compliance certification		Achieved
Agency’s buildings and sites audited for accessibility by Barrier Free NZ Trust			June 2007
Agency’s buildings and sites accessible.
	Frontline staff receive training in disability responsiveness	Achieved
	Reception areas accessible	Achieved
	Counters lowered for wheelchair users	Achieved
	Telephone staff familiar with using NZ Relay service1		See note below
	Other accommodations (please list) (eg signage, accessible lifts, hearing loops, etc)
NZ Relay service – by June 2007 investigate what level of TTY access LINZ would need, and what equipment we would need to purchase to support this.			June 2007
Noting that LINZ is a tenant, investigate the feasibility of a Barrier Free audit for 3 offices occupied by LINZ and cost same.			June 2007

Accessible government services	Achieved / available	Planned this year	N/A
Service policies and procedures include reference to disability issues (eg policies on the use of New Zealand Sign Language Interpreters)	Achieved
Information / data on services provided to disabled people is recorded	Achieved
Service staff receive disability responsiveness training		June 2007
When contracting for new or up-graded IT applications and environments, contracts include a requirement to ensure accessibility by disabled users	Achieved

Responsive government employment practices		Achieved / available	Planned this year	N/A
Human Resource policies and procedures include EEO issues for disabled people		Achieved
Recruitment and selection of vacancies responsive to disabled people (eg vacancies advertised to the widest possible audience, vacancies list alternative forms of contact – phone, fax, email, etc)		Achieved
Human Resource staff familiar with EEO issues for disabled people (eg staff receive disability responsiveness training, staff familiar with the Disability Perspective Tool Kit2, etc)			Oct 2006
Disabled staff are supported
	Individual assessments of workplace accommodations or support are provided (eg work station assessments)	Achieved
	Accommodations provided to disabled staff (eg work station adaptations, special equipment, New Zealand Sign Language interpreters, etc are provided)	Achieved
	Disabled staff provided with opportunities for career advancement	Achieved
	Agency supports a disabled staff network group
	Internal agency newsletters promote the positive presence of disabled staff people
	Other support provided to disabled staff (please list)	Achieved on as required basis

Information and data on disabled people is collected		Achieved / available	Planned this year	N/A
Information on agency’s responsiveness to disabled staff people
	Number of disabled people employed (we recommend you use the State Service Commission’s EEO disability information)		June 2007
	Data on disability related accommodations, adaptive equipment, etc, provided by your agency		March 2007
	Number of disabled people employed under the State Service Commission’s ‘Mainstream programme’3.
Information on agency’s responsiveness to the disabled public
	Information and data on agency’s contact with the disabled public is recorded (eg consultation with disabled groups)			N/A
	Information / data on agency’s disabled client group recorded			N/A

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1. For information on NZ Relay service
2. The Disability Perspective Tool Kit is available on the Office for Disability Issues’ website
3. Information on the State Service Commission’s Mainstream Programme