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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to
or 'investors' seeking dividends
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Polity: Jeb! reports. Prescription: Panic!, in reply to
Who thought a Bush after GW could possibly be less impressive?
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to
We regularly point out to various medical professionals that the feed pump we use has a battery built in but the respiratory equipment has no back-up. They think it's odd too. But nothing changes.
Not. Their. Problem.
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to
your bureaucrat might be good at getting all the stakeholders in a room, nutting out a solution and socialising it
That skillset (and organisational permission to use it) is lacking. Part of the problem is that the Public Finance Act etc makes it too hard for agencies to share responsibility for anything. Govts have been told this for over a decade. Whanau Ora is an example of solving it.
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Access: How many agencies does it take…, in reply to
I worked on the caseweight calculation software at one stage, for my sins.
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Thanks for writing this, Angela. It is so typical of disability support that the cost of all these agencies saying NO is more than it would cost to just say YES.
Because of the buck-passing, only those people with enough social capital end up getting help. All of us pay for that one way or another. We deserve to live in a society that does better.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to
It looks like they are considering including disability in regular surveys that run far more often - which however gives them fewer questions they can ask, so they need to be the right ones.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to
The benefit is for the convenience of a third party.
Though that third party is likely to be an integral part of that person's life support arrangements. I'd really rather have a court or ethics committee untangle all that. Fundamentally, much stronger support for all disabled people and families is needed.
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Polity: The pantheon of sporting dominance, in reply to
The Black Ferns
sponsor's message: https://twitter.com/adidasWomen/status/660514253724622849
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Polity: The pantheon of sporting dominance, in reply to
both the youngest (20) and the oldest winner (39)
hard to match. And who else can pull off this sort of freakish stuff?
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