A society that highly values lives and continually enhances our full participation

Authors

  • Hillary Stace
  • Martin Sullivan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v7i3.4385

Keywords:

Welfare Working Group (WWG), disability policy, New Zealand Disability Strategy, Christchurch earthquake, contradictory understandings of ‘disability’, rights based policy orientation, needs-based service delivery system, invalid’s benefit, reclassification of disabled beneficiaries

Abstract

Many in the disability sector hold suspicions and strong feelings about the work of the Welfare Working Group (WWG), and to understand these it is important to consider New Zealand’s current disability policy context and its history, and why language in the report such as the ‘fit notes’ (p.86) and ‘reassessment processes’ (p.70) causes alarm.

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Policy Quarterly volume 7 number 3 2011

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2011-08-01

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Vol. 7 No. 3 (2011): Policy Quarterly

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