Posts by Sacha
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
one of the authors of that report for the right-wing NZ Initiative sings the praises of social bonds, after this claim.
One of the greatest reforms the Government is expected to make this term was barely mentioned this budget. That is the reform related to social services.
The Government needs to refocus the way the public sector funds and delivers social services. Under the current system, there is little accountability for either achieving outcomes or for ensuring cost effectiveness.
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
sure. guess my personal test is if someone wants to know about a topic, where are they more likely to look for it? no right answers.
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I don't want to overwhelm the personal significance with even more policy stuff
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
I've posted a link about this on the 'wicked problem' thread, which seems more related.
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Govt’s social bonds programme officlal info page since 2013.
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School in court again to challenge previous ruling it must accept aspie student back.
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That Knobz advert in the Audioculture post thanks Peter Blake. The yachtie or a different dude?
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It's one of those things where asking random disabled people doesn't help. You need some relevant expertise beyond life experience to be able to contribute meaningfully.
But the officials involved do not seem to have understood what was required either. Here's one example from the Tier One service specification that underpins all contracts:
s4.3 Population outcomes
"Disabled People in New Zealand are safe, healthy, have choice and control and are equal citizens".
"Are EQUAL CITIZENS:
• Are treated with dignity and respect
• Are acknowledged and valued
• Have a wide range of positive relationships with social and professional peers
• Are welcomed in the community and are valued as equal and also diverse members
• Are actively engaged as leaders and decision-makers
• Are aware of and exercise rights and duties
• Support and benefit from the principles of Te Tiriti O Waitangi."Think about how you could measure those things across disabled people. Then check how the MoH are going to do it:
"Population Indicators
• Access rate by Maori to DSS services
• Access rate by Pacifika peoples to DSS Services
• Access rate by Asian people to DSS Services."That's literally all there is under that one of the four strands. Wouldn't pass review in a stage one public policy or statistics class.
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To be fair, it does look like they have 'involved' some disabled people, families and DPOs in the creation process. Wonder how they selected them?
If you look at the 'data dictionary' document you will see the sort of limitations I mentioned - a series of yes/no datapoints based on whether or not a person received a particular service (eg: did a home support worker turn up on time), not whether the quality of their life has been improved in any way - because we do not collect that information yet.
They have also defined the population they're measuring against as *all* disabled New Zealanders, when only about half of us use DSS services at all.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
The funniest thing is seeing them insist on using RBA (which is a wonderful methodology) when there is so little population data about disabled people to evaluate against, and so little engagement of community in contracting arrangements. Train wreck coming.
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