Disability Support Services

Overview

The Disability Support Services Taskforce is working on how disability support services should best be provided in the future.

The background to this work is that in August an Independent Review found there was unsustainable spending increases. And a lack of fairness and transparency around what support disabled people can access.

The Government wants to put disability support services on a sustainable basis longer-term. The Government also wants to better manage cost pressures and improve consistency, fairness and transparency. 

For this survey, we are seeking feedback on three main topics:

• The first where we would value your input is on more general questions on future disability support services.
• The second is about flexible funding and eligibility and what funding can be used for (Recommendation Six)
• The third area is about needs assessments and the allocation of support (Recommendation Five). 

These topics relate to Recommendations of the Independent Review, and to inform longer-term planning to improve disability services. 

Downloadable Word version of the survey

Survey questions (DOCX 91 KB)

Alternate formats of the survey

NZSL videos external
Easy Read  (DOCX 13 MB)
Easy Read (PDF 1.3 MB)
Braille (BRF 7 KB) 
Large Print  (DOCX 90 KB)

For a video submission in New Zealand Sign Language, please email DSS_NZSLsubmissions@msd.govt.nz and we will send you a link to upload.

Why your views matter

We want to acknowledge many of you have given feedback throughout the year on disability support services and want to thank you for that. This survey will build on what you have already told us.

We would really appreciate your feedback on some key questions to help us better understand and consider these very important supports and services.  Both in the short and longer term.

This survey is only the first round of input on this work. Further community engagement and consultation will be held in early 2025.

This initial survey will help us develop policy options to come back to you early next year. And after that, Cabinet will make decisions.

Survey information:

Your participation is voluntary. This means you can withdraw from the survey at any time. A decision not to participate will have no effect on your relationship with MSD, or continued involvement with our services.

We don't collect any personal information that enables us to identify you, which means your responses will stay completely anonymous. Please do not enter any personal details in the text fields provided in the survey.

Your information is safe with us. All the collected information is safely stored within MSD and can only be accessed by authorised staff. Once the data collection is completed and the final analysis report has been produced and presented, all your data will be deleted from our data storage. 

If you have any concerns or questions about this survey, please contact DSS_submissions@msd.govt.nz.

The closing date for submissions and completed online surveys is 5pm, 22 November 2024.