Posts by Hilary Stace
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Public contextual hearings start next week and will be streamed.
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There are some groups and people who are constantly criticising the Royal Commission. I would suggest people critique why they might want to undermine it or want it to fail or close.
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Lawyer Sonja Cooper on the difficult job of the Royal Commission, the complexity of abuse, and the danger of disenfranchising some survivor voices
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Ministry of Health consultation information. Only a week to do it.
https://www.health.govt.nz/publication/medicinal-cannabis-scheme-consultation?fbclid=IwAR1a3HrrGaRSG3GxWDH_DM4b7gY-jNCx99OhQ5yhpltj-T-uvdoWiLcGIew -
There could be some families who already have some services from providers but some hours of payment for other times would be appreciated. I also hope that if it does prove popular that more funding is provided in future Budgets. The evaluation of Mana Whaikaha (the new NASC-less person-centred system in the MidCentral area which is proving very popular) is also due next year. I would hope that all these things are considered in a new focus on fairer and more consistent disability support in the next parliamentary term.
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Access: Reviewing Funded Family Care and…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Thanks for this Rosemary. Pity about the Herald paywall as I miss some of Kirsty's good work these days. She knows a lot about state care and disability as a result of her investigations over the last several years.
I am hopeful that the eventual select committee process looking at the repeal of the 2013 NZPH&D Act will be an opportunity for some real investigations about better ways.
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Access: Reviewing Funded Family Care and…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Just to clarify a bit more. The Government will (hopefully) repeal the whole of he 2013 NZ Public Health and Disability Amendment Act. The whole point of the Act was to amend and extend Part 4A of the 2000 Act. I should have made that clearer in the post.
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My lack of a legal background shows in a couple of errors in this post. The Court of Appeal is not the highest court (that's the Supreme Court). The act to be repealed is part 4A of the 2013 NZ Public Health and Disability Amendment Act, which refers back to Part 4A of the 2000 NZ Public Health and Disability Act. Sorry about this.
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I think I was mistaken in thinking that this was a big change. It was only a tweak to let in a few more applicants.
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Thank you