The following which recently appeared in my e-mail may be of interest to
some members of this listserv.
Cheers
Neil Morris
Vision and objectives of the New Zealand Disability Strategy
Vision:
New Zealand will be inclusive when people with impairments can say they
live in: 'a society that highly values our lives and continually
enhances our full participation'.
Objectives:
1. Encourage and educate for a non-disabling society
2. Ensure rights for disabled people
3. Provide the best education for disabled people
4. Provide opportunities in employment and economic development for
disabled people
5. Foster leadership by disabled people
6. Foster an aware and responsive public service
7. Create long-term support systems centred on the individual
8. Support quality living in the community for disabled people
9. Support lifestyle choices, recreation and culture for disabled
people
10. Collect and use relevant information about disabled people and
disability issues
11. Promote participation of disabled Mäori
12. Promote participation of disabled Pacific peoples
13. Enable disabled children and youth to lead full and active lives
14. Promote participation of disabled women in order to improve
their quality of life
15. Value families, whänau and people providing ongoing support
Where to from here?
Eleven key government departments are now developing work plans to
implement the New Zealand Disability Strategy over the coming year.
They are the Ministries of Health, Education, Social Policy, Justice,
Pacific Island Affairs, Women's Affairs and Transport; the Departments
of Work and Income and Labour; the State Services Commission; and Te
Puni Kokiri.
From next year, all departments will develop annual work plans, showing
how they will begin removing the barriers facing disabled people.
Departments will be monitored against their work plans and will be
required to report on progress. There will also be overarching reviews
of progress after five years and ten years.
Final decisions about monitoring are yet to be made. However, the
Government has agreed that monitoring must involve disabled people.
Departments must also consider the disability sector reference group's
advice, as well as the strategy itself, when they develop their work
plans.
Copies of the New Zealand Disability Strategy - Whakanui Oranga, and A
Brief Summary of the Analysis of Submissions on the New Zealand
Disability Strategy Discussion Document are available from the Ministry
of Health, phone (04) 496 2277 and on the website: www.nzds.govt.nz.
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Neil
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