The New Zealand Disability Strategy
Read the New Zealand Disability Strategy online in this section below, or you can download it in different formats.
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Table of Contents
- Foreword from the Minister for Disability Issues
- Acknowledgements
- Summary
- Introduction
- Vision of a non-disabling society
- Barriers
- Delivering The Strategy
- Government's objectives
- Actions
- Objective 1: Encourage and educate for a non-disabling society
- Objective 2: Ensure rights for disabled people
- Objective 3: Provide the best education for disabled people
- Objective 4: Provide opportunities in employment and economic development for disabled people
- Objective 5: Foster leadership by disabled people
- Objective 6: Foster an aware and responsive public service
- Objective 7: Create long-term support systems centred on the individual
- Objective 8: Support quality living in the community for disabled people
- Objective 9: Support lifestyle choices, recreation and culture for disabled people
- Objective 10: Collect and use relevant information about disabled people and disability issues
- Objective 11: Promote participation of disabled Māori
- Objective 12: Promote participation of disabled Pacific peoples
- Objective 13: Enable disabled children and youth to lead full and active lives
- Objective 14: Promote participation of disabled women in order to improve their quality of life
- Objective 15: Value families, whānau and people providing ongoing support
- Appendix