Disability Support Services –
Consumer Consortium - Nov 14
Overview
This presentation will include updates on:
• Strategic Plan - principles
• The New Model
• EGL Waikato
• Funded Family Care
• Pricing Project
Ministry Project Updates over the 3 days include:
Putting People First – Pam McNeill
Budget Update – Barbara Crawford
Enabling Good Lives Christchurch – Gordon Boxall
DSS Strategic Plan
Vision Statement
“Disabled people and their
families are supported to live
the lives they choose”
DSS Strategic Plan
7 Guiding Principles
1. All disabled people are treated equally and with
respect
2. Disabled people and their whanau have choice,
control and flexibility over the support in their
lives
3. Support is accessible, innovative, culturally
responsive and person-directed
4. Collaboration and relationships improve
outcomes for disabled people
Guiding Principles cont.
5. Early intervention is critical to achieve
improved outcomes for disabled children
6. Planning and decision making are supported
by evidence, information collection, analysis
and ongoing review
7. The disability support system is sustainable
New Model Update – Elements
• Local Area Coordination (LAC)
• Enhanced Individualised Funding (EIF)
• Choice in Community Living (CICL)
• Supported Self Assessment and Funding
Allocation Tool (SSA and FAT)
The New Model - LAC
• Now ‘business as usual’ in Bay of Plenty - Region
extended to include Lakes (to match NASC region)
• Provider selected through tender process - Imagine
Better
• Evaluation results - LAC is valued by disabled people
and their whanau – through developing own goals,
increasing confidence to achieve, building networks,
taking action
• Two NASC trials – Hutt Valley and Otago/Southland
• Input into EGL navigators in Christchurch and Waikato
New Model – Enhanced
Individualised Funding (EIF)
• Now 245 people on EIF in Bay of Plenty
• People can choose their priorities for support
through making decisions on how to spend their
personal budget
• Choices must be in line with Purchasing Guidelines
(linked to a personal plan, must be a disability
support)
• Evaluation underway
• Decisions will be made early in the new year about
next steps
New Model – Choice in
Community Living
• Over 100 people have now transitioned into
their own homes, with people of their choice
in a location of their choice
• Finding suitable housing remains the single
biggest issue facing this demonstration
• Currently being evaluated
• Decisions will be made early in the new year
on next steps
New Model - Supported Self
Assessment
• Disabled people referred or being reassessed by
Support Net NASC in the Bay of Plenty are using
Supported Self Assessment (SSA)
• People can complete a form at a time, place and
pace that suits them, with whomever they want to
support them
• Over 400 people have used SSA so far
• The SSA is linked to the new Funding Allocation
Tool which is being trialed alongside the SSA.
Enabling Good Lives - Waikato
 Waikato EGL Leadership Group established in 2012
 Representation from disabled people, family and
providers, supported by local officials from the three
Ministries
 Are keen to ensure the work in this region has its own
particular look and builds on community strengths
 Directors appointed last month – Chris Potts and Kate
Cosgriff
 Planning underway to start in July 2015 and build on
the New Model work in CiCL
Enabling Good Lives - Waikato
Four Areas of Focus from July 2015 (approx. 100
people in year one)
• People in residential and aged residential care
(under 65)
• Maori with a disability in urban and rural
Waikato
• Families with disabled children aged 0-18 years
• Disabled people who with a small amount of
support might be able to enter the workforce.
Funded Family Care (FFC)
 Currently, 166 people are being paid through FFC
 Of these 166, 14% are Maori, 1% are Pasifika and 1%
are Asian
 Artemis Research has been engaged to review the
policy – through a qualitative interview process of both
users and non-users
 Review commenced October 2014 and the report is
due end of March 2015
 Following the review, the Ministry will consider what
improvements may need to be made to the policy
Pricing Project – Where are we at?
• Price increases for Personal Care, Household
Management and Supported Living were implemented
this month (November)
• Work is continuing to further extend Fee-For-Service
Facility based respite and increase occupancy rates
from 65% to 75% across the country
• DSS is working with Carers NZ on looking at options to
increase the flexibility of the Carer Support Subsidy
• Work is underway on further testing of the planned
changes to the residential pricing model including
planning for implementation
End - Any Questions?
• Any questions?