Studies and reports

Disability support workforce - community engagement report

Disability Support Services in the Ministry of Health asked Allen + Clarke and All is for All to engage with people, communities, and organisations to ask what they want and expect when it comes to the disability workforce.

Literature review: social exclusion

A literature review carried out for MSD in 2014

Research on Think Differently campaign

The Think Differently campaign was run by the Ministry of Social Development for five years until mid-2015.

Mapping the change

This mapping report explores activities related to social marketing and social change for the Think Differently campaign which was run by the Ministry of Social Development up to 2016.

Listening to the voices of disabled children in New Zealand

In 2016, the Office for Disability Issues (now Whaikaha) commissioned the Donald Beasley Institute to develop this report which considers how the perspectives of disabled children can be taken into account in the development of the policy and law that affects them.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. International directives related to children with disabilities' voices
• 3. New Zealand's response to international directives
• 4. Are disabled children's voices different to all children's voices?
• 5. Research methods for disabled children
• 6. Interviews as a research method with disabled children
• 7. Ethical considerations
• 8. Recommendations
• 9. References

Employer attitudes toward employing disabled people

Research was commissioned in 2012 to explore New Zealand employers’ attitudes towards employing disabled people.