Election 2017 - Party Policies - Health - Disability
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- Require District Health Boards to implement a disability 'Plan of Action' in accordance with Article 25 'Health' of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. All DHBs should work with Disability Peoples Organisations (DPOs) to develop, implement and report to the Plan of Action.
- Support paying the carers and support workers of people with disabilities a living wage. Disabled people should determine who they want to care for them and determine the arrangements that work best.
- Develop and implement a fully flexible, nationwide Independent Living strategy informed by Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ‘Independent Living and being included in the Community’.
- Support the establishment of funding parity and parity of outcome for people who have disability.
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- Comprehensively review the entire system of special needs support so that resources are allocated based on individual needs assessment for each child, rather than each child having to meet the criteria imposed by the system.
- Support the provision of vocational services available to people with disabilities; and focus on increasing the proportion of disabled people who are supported into paid work through increasing employer support and education.
- Set new, more flexible criteria so that so that 250,000 more New Zealanders with long-term health conditions can get the extra support they need.
- Invest in technology appropriate for people who are visually impaired or blind or Deaf, including captioning and audio visual and mobile phones, compatible with voice software, to enhance participation in our democracy.
- Ensure implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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- Enable Good Lives so whānau have more choice, greater control and flexibility over support and funding in their everyday lives.
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- $27.1m will be invested in expanding the Enabling Good Lives programme which gives disabled people more choice and control over their lives.
- Overhauling the New Zealand Disability Strategy to improve the way we support those living with disabilities.
- Complete the Disability Action Plan and set challenging targets to ensure we get results and complement the work driven by the New Zealand Disability Strategy.
- Expand the Disability Confident Campaign to include more employers and to create more job opportunities for disabled people.
- Expand access to the Community Services Card to an additional 350,000 people with low incomes and high housing costs.
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- Improve residential services for people who have severe illnesses or disabilities and/or substance abuse problems.
- Provide equality of funding for all family home carers.
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- Investigate the feasibility of a national health insurance scheme, as an extension of the existing ACC scheme, for non-trauma based disability such as elective surgery for the elderly.
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