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Disability Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand - 2010 Convention Coalition Report

The aim of the monitoring project is to provide robust information that Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) and government can use to formulate better disability policy. The…

Preventing child neglect in New Zealand: A public health assessment of the evidence, current approach, and best practice guidance

This report examines responses to child neglect across government services, specifically the policy and practice of health, education, Police and social services agencies.

Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the curriculum Part II: A New Zealand Overview

Language instruction to children with hearing loss requires the highest level of competency at the earliest age levels in order to optimize neural plasticity providing the…

Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the Curriculum Part I: An international literature review

This literature review has focused on the needs of those deaf children for whom visual communication through a Sign Language is beneficial for their educational development.…

How can tertiary education deliver better value to the economy?

This paper asks how tertiary education can deliver better value to the economy. It is based on a presentation given at the New Zealand conference of…

Never Let Your Child Get Sunburnt: Did the messages get through? In Fact

In 2007/08, the Health Sponsorship Council (HSC) launched the Never Let Your Child Get Sunburnt campaign. The campaign targeted parents and caregivers and explained the link…

Face the Facts - what did we learn? In the Loop

A summary of the learnings about the Face the Facts campaign.

Central government: Results of the 2009/10 audits (volume 1)

he 2009/10 year has been a challenging one for many public entities. I am very aware that the global economic and financial crisis has focused the…

Inquiry Report: How the Department of Internal Affairs manages spending that could give personal benefit to Ministers

This is the ninth public report in 10 years by an Auditor-General about spending on parliamentary and ministerial support. This sort of public sector spending has…

New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring report 2010

The aim of the New Zealand Arrestee Drug Use Monitoring (NZ‐ADUM) to measure the level of alcohol and drug use by police detainees and investigate the…