Office of the Minister for Disability Issues Chair Cabinet Social Policy Committee Proposal This seeks approval for a demonstration of the Enabling Good Lives approach to improving support for disabled people in Christchurch: to transform the cross-government disability support system locally to provide information about what would be required to implement the Enabling Good Lives model nationally. Executive summary In 2011, the sector-led report Good Lives’ recommended a fundamental shift to the ‘Enabling cross-government disability support system to give disabled people greater choice and control over their supports and their lives. In September 2012, the Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues agreed to a long-term direction for change to the disability support system, based on the Enabling Good Lives approach. It also invited me to submit a proposal to Cabinet for a demonstration of the Enabling Good Lives approach in Christchurch. The proposed demonstration would deliver on one of Cabinet’s four priorities for including disabled people in the Canterbury recovery: to reconfigure supports and services so that disabled people and their families/whānau receive more person-centred supports in their local communities, and have more choice and control over the supports that they receive. [CAB Min (12) 15/5, SOC Min (12) 16/4 refer] Following Cabinet agreement, the detailed design will be developed jointly with disabled people, families and providers in Christchurch. Disabled people will provide advice locally and nationally, to ensure that the changes align with the Enabling Good Lives approach and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The demonstration in Christchurch will start by focusing on school leavers with high needs and very high needs. As it expands over three years, the demonstration will help us to understand what it would take to move the whole disability system in the direction envisioned in Good Lives’. It would include funds and services from the Ministries of Health, ‘Enabling Education and Social Development. The demonstration will be led by a director in Christchurch who would report to a Joint Agency Group (the Ministries of Health, Education, Social Development and ACC). That group would report to the Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues, so that the relevant Ministers can collectively oversee the demonstration. Background On 26 January 2009, Cabinet established the Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues (the Ministerial Committee) to oversee the Government’s response to the Social Services Select
Office of the Minister for Disability Issues Chair Cabinet Social Policy Committee Proposal This seeks approval for a demonstration of the Enabling Good Lives approach to improving support for disabled people in Christchurch: to transform the cross-government disability support system locally to provide information about what would be required to implement the Enabling Good Lives model nationally. Executive summary In 2011, the sector-led report ‘Enabling Good Lives’ recommended a fundamental shift to the cross-government disability support system to give disabled people greater choice and control over their supports and their lives. In September 2012, the Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues agreed to a long-term direction for change to the disability support system, based on the Enabling Good Lives approach. It also invited me to submit a proposal to Cabinet for a demonstration of the Enabling Good Lives approach in Christchurch. The proposed demonstration would deliver on one of Cabinet’s four priorities for including disabled people in the Canterbury recovery: to reconfigure supports and services so that disabled people and their families/whānau receive more person-centred supports in their local communities, and have more choice and control over the supports that they receive. [CAB Min (12) 15/5, SOC Min (12) 16/4 refer] Following Cabinet agreement, the detailed design will be developed jointly with disabled people, families and providers in Christchurch. Disabled people will provide advice locally and nationally, to ensure that the changes align with the Enabling Good Lives approach and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The demonstration in Christchurch will start by focusing on school leavers with high needs and very high needs. As it expands over three years, the demonstration will help us to understand what it would take to move the whole disability system in the direction envisioned in ‘Enabling Good Lives’. It would include funds and services from the Ministries of Health, Education and Social Development. The demonstration will be led by a director in Christchurch who would report to a Joint Agency Group (the Ministries of Health, Education, Social Development and ACC). That group would report to the Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues, so that the relevant Ministers can collectively oversee the demonstration. Background On 26 January 2009, Cabinet established the Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues (the Ministerial Committee) to oversee the Government’s response to the Social Services Select