Briefing to the Incoming Minister for Disability Issues 2008 - Enabling participation by disabled New Zealanders

Endnotes

  1. The term ‘disability sector’ is used in this Briefing to refer to disabled people and disabled people’s organisations, their family members and family organisations, disability advocates, and disability service providers (including their umbrella organisations). The aged care and mental health sectors are included within this definition.
  2. The ‘ordinary life’ concept is elaborated in “To Have an 'Ordinary' Life - Kia Whai Oranga 'Noa'. A report to the New Zealand Minister of Health and the Minister for Disability Issues on community membership for adults with an intellectual disability”. This 2003 report from the National Health Committee examines the barriers New Zealand adults with an intellectual disability face in trying to participate in society. It provides evidence for change and outlines practical steps to implement the New Zealand Disability Strategy. Refer http://www.nhc.health.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexcm/nhc-ordinary-life?Open
  3. Definitions and sources for Figure 1.

    Post-school qualifications: people aged 25–44 years. Disabled = people currently disabled and who had been disabled during formal education. Source: Education and Training. Unpublished report on 2006 New Zealand Disability Survey data.

    Employed full or part time: people aged 15–64 years. Source: Disability in the Labour Market in New Zealand in 2006. Statistics New Zealand, October 2008. Derived from Tables 1 and 2. 

    Personal income greater than $30,000: people aged 15–64 years (proportion of people specifying income). Source: Disability in the Labour Market in New Zealand in 2006. Statistics New Zealand, October 2008. Derived from Table 5. 

    Owns (fully or partly) own home: people aged 25–44 years. Source: 2001 New Zealand Disability Survey. Living with Disability in New Zealand. Ministry of Health 2004. Appendix Table 6.7.
  4. The Economic Living Standards of Working Age New Zealanders with Disabilities. Luke Smith, John Jensen, and Steven Johnston. Centre for Social Research and Evaluation. Ministry of Social Development, June 2007 (unpublished).
  5. Some people who clearly fit this definition do not identify themselves as being disabled. They prefer to describe themselves in other ways – for example, as older people, people with experience of mental illness, or Deaf.
  6. Projections based on age group specific disability prevalence rates from the 2006 New Zealand Disability Survey, and Statistics New Zealand age group specific population projections, base 2006, series 5 (medium birth, death and migration assumptions).
  7. Source of data for Figure 3: 2006 New Zealand Disability Survey. Statistics New Zealand. Hot Off The Press, 10 October 2007.
  8. New Zealand Disability Strategy Implementation Review 2001–2007.
  9. Work-related stories sourced from the Australian Employers’ Network on Disability. Names have been changed.
  10. The New Zealand Housing Strategy sets out a vision and strategic direction for housing up to 2015. It takes a collaborative approach to strengthening the housing sector's ability to provide affordable, quality housing for all New Zealanders. The Strategy was launched in May 2005 following extensive consultation. Many people are involved in implementing the Strategy, including government agencies, the private sector, voluntary and community groups and local councils. Housing New Zealand is leading the implementation of the Strategy's programme of action.
  11. Refer Housing and Disability. Future Proofing New Zealand’s Housing Stock for an Inclusive Society. Final Report. Prepared for Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand. Centre for Research Evaluation and Social Assessment (CRESA). March 2007.
  12. Refer http://www.lifetimedesign.org.nz/
  13. The New Zealand Carers’ Strategy was published on 28 April 2008. The Carers’ Strategy is supported by a Five-year Action Plan to begin addressing some of the issues that impact on the thousands of New Zealanders who assist friends and family members that need help with everyday living because of ill health, disability or old age.

    The Carers’ Strategy was developed in a partnership between government agencies and the New Zealand Carers Alliance, a network of over 40 non-governmental organisations. The Carers’ Strategy envisions New Zealand Aotearoa as a society that values individuals, families, whanau or aiga who support others who need help with their everyday living.

    Refer http://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/work-programmes/policy-development/carers-strategy/
  14. Improving Long-term Disability Supports: Maintaining Momentum. March 2008 Cabinet paper.
  15. Inquiry into the quality of care and service provision for disabled people. Report of the Social Services Select Committee. September 2008.
    http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/06259D2F-780B-40A0-9170-005C8C046E72/93089/DBSCH_SCR_4194_6219.pdf - [PDF - 237KB]
  16. Source: A Picture of Government Funded Disability Support Provision in New Zealand. Structure, Expenditure and Populations in the financial year 2005/2006. Hinrich Kozik, unpublished, Ministry of Social Development, June 2007. pp 22–23.

    Given expenditure does not include all national office overheads for all agencies as some accounting practices incorporate these expenses with general overheads and it is difficult to identify them. Also excluded are Income Support payments, clinical services, and services for people with short-term illness. Figures are GST exclusive.
  17. Source: A Picture of Government Funded Disability Support Provision in New Zealand. Structure, Expenditure and Populations in the financial year 2005/2006. Hinrich Kozik, unpublished, Ministry of Social Development, June 2007. p 24.

    Given expenditure does not include all national office overheads for all agencies as some accounting practices incorporate these expenses with general overheads and it is difficult to identify them.

    Also excluded are Income Support payments, clinical services, and services for people with short-term illness. Figures are GST exclusive.
  18. New entitlement claims (covering all accounts: work, motor vehicle, earners, non-earners and treatment injury). Data provided by the Department of Labour.
  19. Source: Ministry of Education.
  20. Pathways to Inclusion, the government’s policy on vocational services for disabled people, was launched in 2001. It has two main goals:
    1. to increase the participation of disabled people in employment
    2. to increase the participation of disabled people in their communities.
    Pathways to Inclusion provides a policy framework for the overall development of vocational services for disabled people and fits within the overarching policy of the New Zealand Disability Strategy.
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