Survey on future disability support services
We are seeking your feedback on future disability support services.
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Seeking your feedback on future disability support services
The Disability Support Services Taskforce is working on how disability support services should best be provided in the future. Please see the video introduction and transcript below. The online survey is here external and there are alternate formats of the survey below.
We want to acknowledge many of you have given feedback throughout the year on disability support services, and we want to thank you for that.
We would appreciate if you could take part in our survey on disability support services.
A lot of feedback has been provided this year to the Government, which we are very grateful for. This survey will build on that earlier feedback.
It will help us plan how to give the best disability support services that we can .
There are three main question areas:
- overall disability support services
- needs assessments and the allocation of support
- flexible funding and eligibility and what funding can be used for
You don’t have to give your name to do the survey and and we are not collecting your personal details through it.
How long do I have to complete this survey?
Until Friday, 22 November
Why are you doing a survey and will there be any other consultation?
The Disability Support Services (DSS) Taskforce has been set up to work on the recommendations of the Independent Review, which happened this year.
The Taskforce wants to do this work in consultation with the disabled community.
This is the first survey we are doing. We have been meeting with a range of representative organisations.
We will ask for more feedback early next year.
After that, we’ll consider what we’ve heard from the community and sector in forming advice to the Government on the future settings for disability support services.
Will survey results be available?
We will be sharing results of this survey in December on this website.
This next survey will build on what you have already told us.
We would really appreciate your feedback on some key questions to help us better understand and consider these very important supports and services. Both in the short and longer term.
The survey is anonymous, and we are not collecting personal information through it. We do not provide information about your survey responses to any other individual, company or government body, except as required by law. Any identifiable information provided by you will be treated in confidence.
This survey is only the first round of input on this work. Further community engagement and consultation will be held in early 2025.
This initial survey will help us develop policy options to come back to you early next year. And after that, Cabinet will make decisions.
The background to this work is that in August an Independent Review found there was unsustainable spending increases. And a lack of fairness and transparency around what support disabled people can access.
The Government wants to put Disability Support Services on a sustainable basis longer-term.
The Government also wants to better manage cost pressures and improve consistency, fairness and transparency.
For this survey, we are seeking feedback on three main topics:
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The first where we would value your input is on more general questions on future disability support services.
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The second is about flexible funding and eligibility and what funding can be used for (Recommendation Five)
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The third area is about needs assessments and the allocation of support (Recommendation Six).
Survey on future disability services video
Video transcript
Video transcript: Survey on future disability support services
Kia ora koutou. I'm Chris Bunny, the head of the Disability Support Services Taskforce. We're working on how disability support services should best be provided into the future. We want to acknowledge many of you have given feedback throughout the year on disability support services, and we want to thank you for that.
This next survey will build on what you have already told us. We would really appreciate your feedback on some key questions to help us better understand and consider these very important supports and services, both in the short and longer term. The survey is anonymous, and we are not collecting personal information through it.
We do not provide information about your survey responses to any other individual, company, or government body, except as required by law. Any identifiable information provided by you will be treated in confidence. This survey is only the first round of input into this work. Further community engagement and consultation will be held in early 2025.
This initial survey will help us develop policy options to come back to you early next year. And after that, Cabinet will make decisions. The background to this work is that in August, an independent review found there was unsustainable spending increases and a lack of fairness and transparency around what support disabled people can access.
The government wants to put disability support services on a sustainable basis longer term. The Government also wants to better manage cost pressures and improve consistency, fairness and transparency. For this survey, we are seeking feedback on three main topics. The first, where we would value your input, is more general questions on future disability support services.
The second is about flexible funding and eligibility and what funding can be used for. The third area is about needs assessments and the allocation of support. These topics relate to the recommendations of the independent review and will inform longer term planning to improve disability services. We really hope you are able to take part.