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Carers NZ's website has been revamped and relaunched!  We hope you like our colourful new site, made possible with help from the Ministry of Social Development, ACC, the Ministry of Health, and private sponsors.  The site has heaps of new content, including information adapted from the Government's recently launched print Guide for Carers!  We would love to receive your feedback and ideas to improve the site. 

 

Human Rights Review Tribunal

Recently the Human Rights Tribunal found that a Ministry of Health policy not to pay family members to provide ongoing support to their disabled children was discriminatory on the grounds of family status, and therefore contravened human rights legislation. The decision comes at the end of a long running case taken by a group of parents and their disabled adult family members. The decision in their favour has been welcomed by disability rights activists and organisations representing carers' interests. And they're not happy the Government's lodged an appeal to the High Court.  National Radio's One in Five programme interviewed Carers NZ's spokesperson Roger Palairet, Diversity consultant Philip Patston, and DPA president Wendy Neilson. Click here to listen to the full interview exploring the significance of the Tribunal's decision ... and the implications of the Government's appeal, which Carers NZ and the NZ Carers Alliance believe is short-sighted (click here to read their press release about the issue).  Roger Palairet also prepared a commentary paper developed for the Carers Alliance about the Tribunal's decision, leading to a decision to launch the We Care! awareness campaign later in the year; click here to download this paper.

Listen to representatives of the carer movement (including John Forman, Chair, NZ Carers Alliance), being interviewed on Radio NZ's Summer Report programme urging the Government not to appeal the Human Rights Tribunal decision.

 

Groundbreaking New Zealand Research

The Carers Assessment of Needs Study, carried out by Dr Diane Jorgensen of Auckland University's School of Nursing during 2007/2008, is one of the largest qualitative studies about carers in the world.  It was undertaken with help from national non-profit Carers NZ, which enlisted carers to participate,

Other non-profits also encouraged carers to take part so the study could accurately reflect who carers are, and the challenges of this large but invisible community of New Zealanders.

Click here to read New Zealand Informal Carers and Their Unmet Needs ... an article drawn from the study's findings, and printed in The New Zealand Medical Journal .

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