Cyclone Gabrielle Government Funding Update
Following up on the announcement made on 13 February to put $11.5 million towards the social sector as part of the Flood and Cyclone response effort, Minister Sepuloni has announced further increases and changes to this fund on March 9th.
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Additional funding for food
The $4 million originally announced for the provision of food to existing food providers is almost exhausted. An additional $2 million will be put towards this fund to be split between direct funding for community food providers and bulk procurement of essential food supplies through the New Zealand Food Network.
Disability Focused Fund
The disability focused fund is also almost exhausted. However there has been capacity identified from disability providers in impacted regions with Care in the Community funding. By increasing the scope of these providers, more disabled people will be able to be supported in impacted regions.
Increasing the cap on the provider grant
The community providers response and wellbeing fund that was previously announced originally had a cap of $7,000 per grant. However we saw through applications and general feedback that this wasn’t adequate to support providers with the current response. This cap will now be increased to $40,000 effective immediately.
Increasing the cap on the community grant
The community support fund that as previously announced originally had a cap of $3,500. However similar to the provider fund, based on applications and general feedback we heard that needed to be increased to better support the work of community groups. This cap will now be increased to $20,000 effective immediately.
MSD will proactively work with those who have already received funding to ensure they can access up to the new cap for their organisation for both the provider and community fund.
Translation support
In order to better support Pacific and ethnic communities there will also $500,000 invested in translation services and enabling better engagement of pacific and ethnic communities with government supports and information.
If you have any questions, please either contact your existing MSD contact or email: [email protected]
Summary of recent NZCCSS submissions
Here’s a summary of our policy team’s mahi over the last month, with links to the submissions.
Review of Adult Decision Making-Capacity Law Submission
NZCCSS supports the kaupapa to review adult decision-making capacity law, by the Law Commission. Our member organisations work alongside adults with affected decision-making across the lifespan, in a range of settings including disabled care services, dementia care homes, and aged care facilities.
We advocate for improvements to the current legal framework to address issues of access, equity, and accountability.
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Justice Select Committee on the Supreme Courts Declaration of inconsistency Submission
NZCCSS agree with the Supreme Court’s Declaration that the voting age is inconsistent with the human rights of 16 and 17 year-olds.
We advocate for increased access to voting for young people in our communities. We strongly believe that the voting age should be lowered to 16 to enable youth engagement in the democratic processes that affect their lives and will be in place as they reach legal adulthood at 18.
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Oranga Tamariki Disability Strategy Submission
NZCCSS support the kaupapa to commit to substantially better support for tamariki and taiohi with disabilities, particularly those engaged with Oranga Tamariki. We welcome the early engagement by Oranga Tamariki with the wider sector, and the clear commitment to ensuring access to this process was accessible for all.
This mahi is deeply important, and must be truly aspirational to ensure that this community’s needs are met, and their potential honoured. This mahi must be more than another framework, and must come from a kaupapa of deep knowledge in relation to understanding tamariki, taiohi and those who are also disabled peoples.
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Women’s Health Strategy Submission
NZCCSS supports the kaupapa to create Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Women’s Health Strategy by Manatū Hauora | Ministry of Health. We stand alongside the many organisations within our membership and across the community, health and social services sector who will be participating in
this opportunity.
In aiming to be most useful, we chose to focus our submission on the needs of older women, while noting that their needs are largely representative of all women.
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