Public Address | Cafe | Access: Funded Family Care from a recipient’s perspective https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=380965#post380965 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=380965#post380965 So, with very little fanfare (and I would have missed it were I not looking for it) the Mystery of Health published the report into the Targeted Engagement on Funded Family Care.

I was torn between reading those publications and reading the report into the Thompson and Clark inquiry. I…

]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:34:18 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=371837#post371837 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=371837#post371837 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:04:11 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=368613#post368613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=368613#post368613 Excuse me, anyone out there using Funded Family Care..

I see from their 2014-2015 Annual Report that Inidividualised Funding Host Manawanui in Charge Ltd. has the Funding Advisory and Support Services Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary

(FASS Ltd. was set up to implement the Funded Family Care (FFC) Policy…

]]> Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:16:19 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=368568#post368568 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=368568#post368568 Excellent piece of work ...

http://www.newshub.co.nz/tvshows/thenation/are-family-carers-getting-a-fair-deal-2016112611

Oh! The pain at seeing Uncle Tony Ryall telling porkies....and telling us where to go...

]]> Sat, 26 Nov 2016 14:33:07 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=368533#post368533 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=368533#post368533 Funded Family Care is hitting MSM this weekend with not one, but two programs discussing the issue.

TV3...The Nation on Saturday and TV 1's Sunday program.

I have no idea as to why now....but Andrew Geddis has a post up on Pundit giving folks the heads up.

In AG's latest…

]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:46:52 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334816#post334816 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334816#post334816 Has Peter found any organisations good at pushing for what he needs changed?

Well. Peter, being one of those foolish people who did not wait until 1st April (Oh! The Irony!)1974 to accidently sustain a high spinal cord injury, has approached both TASC (The Association for Spinal Concerns) and The…

]]> Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:02:57 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334815#post334815 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334815#post334815 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:26:57 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334814#post334814 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334814#post334814 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:19:53 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334813#post334813 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334813#post334813 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:29:46 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334812#post334812 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334812#post334812 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:27:50 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334811#post334811 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334811#post334811 It's one of the reasons our community is so ineffective politically compared with others a fraction the size.

Yes sir, no ma'am, three bags full. Deeply ingrained. That or blazing justified anger, and little in between.

]]> Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:22:51 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334810#post334810 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334810#post334810 As you will be aware, we cripples are expected to be ostentatiously grateful for every pat on the head we are offered, to rock no boats, bite no hands, and to swap sensible English for euphemistic jargon. The daughter in question (that would be me) is concerned about the potential… ]]> Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:17:25 +1300 walrus https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334802#post334802 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334802#post334802 Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:44:20 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334787#post334787 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334787#post334787 "ffc withheldffc"....why are you not posting under your real name?

Just asking.

]]> Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:09:22 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334752#post334752 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334752#post334752 what about Corrections?

Anne Tolley having had that portfolio and now MSD could be interesting when she considers the relative willingness to invest in employment/skills training.

]]> Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:34:03 +1300 ffc withheldffc https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334745#post334745 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334745#post334745 Except for ACC and National Super recipients who are recognised as being entitled.
It seems to me that essential disability supports should be an entitlement also.

]]> Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:49:33 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334723#post334723 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334723#post334723 Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:54:34 +1300 ffc withheldffc https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334716#post334716 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334716#post334716 punishment for daring to demand equal rights.


Lack of entitlement, that is lack of right to support services, was brought home to me at a meeting with a senior MOH person presenting on IF with respite. I used the word " entitlement" in a context where it was the correct…

]]> Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:34:50 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334712#post334712 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334712#post334712 Hah! Yes a bit.....BUT...the aged care sector is somewhat relying on the the WW2 generation and the Post WW2 boomers. Both groups will demand the Gummint take care of them 'because we have fought and we have paid our taxes'. And fair enough.

For the same reason ACC claimants demand…

]]> Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:07:10 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334711#post334711 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334711#post334711 FFC was NOT what the case was about

I thought govt's fear was a precedent broader than disability services (eg: aged care) about what they could legally offload onto family/community rather than state or private service providers. Big changes in MSD services probable soon, including PPP-style long-term agreements. Clearing the…

]]> Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:20:52 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334710#post334710 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334710#post334710 Sacha, even if they extended FFC to spouses and partners....I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

Those family carers who were being paid through 'backdoor deals' enjoyed (and some still enjoy) $17 per hour and up to at least 56 hours per week.

FFC was NOT what the…

]]> Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:08:12 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334709#post334709 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334709#post334709 Great article about an appalling piece of Ministry of Health work.

It required a particular level of malice to construct FFC.

If nothing else, as you say, you are better off financially, and you enjoy the dignity of paid work.

]]> Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:01:49 +1300 ffc withheldffc https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334704#post334704 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334704#post334704 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:13:54 +1300 ffc withheldffc https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334703#post334703 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334703#post334703 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 13:12:22 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334700#post334700 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334700#post334700 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 11:36:23 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334698#post334698 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334698#post334698 Thank you. Interesting to hear another angle on this process that Rosemary wrote about recently.

I'm hoping people and organisations can push the government to widen eligibility and reduce the ongoing compliance effort for disabled people and our families.

]]> Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:59:16 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334697#post334697 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-funded-family-care-from-a-recipients/?p=334697#post334697 Discussion from blog post.

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