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• Disability data and insights
  • Disability data and evidence resources
  • Disability data updates
  • Disability Data and Evidence Advisory Group and Community of Practice
    • All of 2024's meetings
      • 2024 06 DDEAG meeting summary
      • 2024 04 DDEAG meeting summary
      • 2024 07 DDEAG meeting summary
    • All of 2023's meetings
      • 2023 09 DDEAG meeting summary
      • 2023 06 DDEWG meeting summary
      • 2023 03 DDEWG meeting summary
      • 2023 11 DDEAG meeting summary
    • All of 2022's meetings
      • 2022 December DDEWG Meeting Summary
      • 2022 10 DDEWG Meeting Summary
      • 2022 June DDEWG Meeting Summary
      • 2022 March DDEWG Summary
    • All of 2021's meetings
      • 2021 December DDEWG Meeting Sumarry
      • 2021 September DDEWG Meeting Summary
      • 2021 June DDEWG Meeting Summary
      • 2021 March DDEWG Meeting Summary
    • All of 2020's meetings
      • 2020 September DDEWG Meeting Summary
    • All of 2018's meetings
      • 2018 June DDEWG Meeting Summary
    • All of 2017's meetings
      • 2017 September DDEWG Meeting Summary
    • All of 2016's meetings
      • 2016 October DDEWG Meeting Summary
      • 2016 March DDEWG Meeting Summary
  • The Washington Group Short Set of Questions on Functioning
• Support and services
  • Māori and Pacific
    • Māori disability support services
    • Pacific disability support services
  • Help and support for violence, abuse or neglect
  • More helpful health, social, and disability related services
  • Emergency preparation and support
  • Support from other government agencies
• Guidance and advice
  • About disability
    • Supporting the dignity of disabled people – things to know and do
  • Resources for communities and educators
    • The Washington Group Short Set of Questions on Functioning
    • How to improve access to buildings
    • Guides for school leaders and teachers
    • Engagement resources
      • Engagement checklist
      • Creating an accessible engagement and reporting process
        • Using images, diagrams, graphs, and tables accessibly
        • Using written information and printed materials accessibly
        • Using testimonials
        • Accessible presentations and other verbal communication
        • Venue accessibility
      • Engaging with people with specific disabilities
        • Engaging with people who are blind or low vision
          • Inclusive meeting practices for blind or low vision participants
          • Guidelines for interacting with guide dogs
        • Engaging with autistic people
        • Engaging with people who are Deaf or have hearing loss
        • Engaging with intellectually disabled people
        • Engaging with people with complex communication needs
    • Disability Toolkit for Policy
  • Resources for employers
    • Giving effect to the New Zealand Sign Language Act
      • 2. Important context
      • 3. Guiding principles
      • 4. Giving effect to the guiding principles
      • 5. Other relevant frameworks
      • 6. More help and guidance
• Alternate formats
  • Accessible information training
  • All-of-government process for creating alternate formats
• Strategies and studies
  • Strategies
    • Atoatoali’o National Pacific Disability Approach
      • 2024 National Pacific Disability Approach
        • Pacific community talanoa feedback report
          • Background
          • Purpose and approach
          • What the community told us
          • Priorities for the Action Plan
          • Discussion
          • Regional feedback
          • Next steps
          • Reflections: Opportunities for improvement
          • Appendix One: Background to the Action Plan
          • Appendix Two: Whaikaha establishment
          • Appendix Three: Online Survey Questions
          • Appendix Four: Talanoa engagement questions
          • Appendix Five: Pacific disability dashboard
    • Disability Action Plan 2019-2023
      • Putting the Disability Strategy into action
      • Reporting, outcomes and work programmes
      • Disability Action Plan reports
        • Report 1: January to June 2020
        • Report 2: July to December 2020
        • Report 3: January to June 2021
        • Report 4: July to December 2021
          • NZSL translation of the executive summary - Report 4
        • Report 5: January to June 2022
        • Report 6: July to December 2022
        • Report 7: January to June 2023
        • Report 8: July to December 2023
      • Previous Disability Action Plans
    • New Zealand Disability Strategy
      • Foreword – Minister for Disability Issues
      • Executive Summary
      • Our journey - an introduction
      • Our vision – where to from here
      • Who we are – our community
      • Principles and approaches
      • Our outcomes – priorities for change
        • Outcome 1: education
        • Outcome 2: employment and economic security
        • Outcome 3: health and wellbeing
        • Outcome 4: rights protection and justice
        • Outcome 5: accessibility
        • Outcome 6: attitudes
        • Outcome 7: choice and control
        • Outcome 8: leadership
      • Making it work
      • Getting it going – who is involved
      • Glossary
      • Appendix 1 – The Reference Group
      • Audio: the Disability Strategy
  • Guidelines
    • Aotearoa New Zealand Autism Guideline: Third Edition
      • Supplementary papers and supporting materials
    • Disability Toolkit for Policy
      • Step 1: Thinking about disability issues at the start of the policy process
      • Step 2: Engaging with the disability community
      • Step 3: Embedding disability into the policy issue
      • Step 4: Incorporating disability into the policy options
      • Step 5: Incorporating disability into Cabinet papers, information and communications
      • Step 6: Considering disability throughout implementation
      • Step 7: Considering how disability outcomes can be monitored and evaluated
      • Help! A disability toolkit cheat sheet
      • Things you should know: Definitions, concepts and approaches
  • Studies and reports
    • Disability support workforce - community engagement report
    • Literature review: social exclusion
    • Research on Think Differently campaign
    • Mapping the change
    • Listening to the voices of disabled children in New Zealand
      • 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

About us

• Who we are
  • Leadership and Structure
  • Engaging with the community
    • Disabled People's Organisations Coalition
    • Memorandum of Understanding with National Enabling Good Lives
    • Memorandum of Understanding with Oranga Tamariki
  • Finding our name
• Our work
  • Refresh of the New Zealand Disability Strategy
    • New Zealand Disability Strategy working group members
      • Health working group members
      • Employment working group members
      • Justice working group members
      • Education working group members
    • Data Insights in education, employment, health, housing and justice
    • Online and in-person meetings
    • NZSL video translations
  • The Disability Four-Point Plan
  • Insights Alliance
  • New Zealand Sign Language Strategy
  • The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care
  • Wai 2575 Health Services and Outcomes Inquiry
• Corporate Publications
  • Cabinet Papers and information releases
  • Briefings and reports to the Minister
  • Annual reports
    • 2025 Pūrongo ā-tau | Annual Report
    • 2024 Pūrongo ā-tau | Annual Report
      • Chief Executive foreword
      • Our year in numbers
      • Section one - our strategic direction
        • Our story
        • What we want to achieve
        • What we do
        • Programmes we have progressed
        • Our organisation and values
        • Supporting Te Tiriti o Waitangi relationships
        • Stewardship
        • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care
        • People and culture
        • Governance and risk management
        • Measuring our performance
      • Section two - our key achievements
        • Our work in 2023/2024
        • Community-based support services
        • Connecting and strengthening disability communities
        • Residential-based support services
        • Early intervention support services
        • Environmental support services
        • Budget significant initiatives
        • Future key performance indicators
      • Section three - Other reporting requirements
      • Appendix: disabled people population and life outcome statistics
    • Annual Report 2022/23
      • Executive Summary - Annual Report 2022/23
    • ODI annual reports
  • Responses to OIA Requests
  • Kia Toipoto (pay gap) reports
    • 2024 Kia Toipoto (pay gap) report and Diversity and Inclusion progress report
    • 2023 Kia Toipoto (pay gap) report and Diversity and Inclusion plan
      • Executive Summary - Kia Toipoto (Pay gap) report and Diversity and Inclusion plan
  • Chief Executive Gifts, Benefits and Expense Disclosures
  • Strategic Intentions
    • Strategic Intentions Tauākī Whakamaunga Atu
  • Independent Review Report
• Disability Convention
  • About the Convention
    • Audio version - The Convention
    • New Zealander on the UNCRPD
  • Implementing the Convention
    • Response to recommendations from second UNCRPD examination
    • Second review of New Zealand's implementation
    • First review of New Zealand's implementation
      • Questions and answers - 2015 Government response
      • Government response to the UNCRPD's Concluding Observations
    • New Zealand's first report on implementation
  • Framework to promote, protect, and monitor implementation of the Convention
    • Notice of independent monitoring mechanism
    • Monitoring reports and responses
    • Reports on reviews of disabled people-led monitoring
  • Optional protocol
    • Read the Optional Protocol
  • Response to recommendations from second UNCRPD examination

News

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• Budgets
  • Budget 2025
    • Budget 2025 - Disability Related Initiatives
  • Budget 2024
  • Budget 2023
    • Continuing to establish a Ministry of Disabled People
    • Supporting Tāngata Whaikaha Māori and Disabled People - Cost Pressures
    • Budget 2023 – disability related initiatives

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