OIA3406
31 October 2024
Nick Armstrong
[FYI request #28497 email]
Tēnā koe Nick
Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request of 23 September
2024, to the Ministry of Disabled People - Whaikaha (the Ministry) seeking information
relating to the My Home My Choice programme.
This letter communicates our decision in relation to each part of your request. The
documentation outlined in this letter will be provided to you next week. We are
currently in the final stages of preparing it for release to you.
•
Any briefing papers, whether in draft or final, regarding the work
completed to date, programme direction or recommendations.
The Ministry has decided to grant this part of your request, and next week you can
expect to receive copies of the following documents:
Date
Title
February 2024 Funding Request: My Home, My Choice
4 April 2024
Excerpt from Transformation Management Board Meeting 4
April 2024
15 May 2024
My Home, My Choice Nōku te Kainga Noho Nōku te Whakatau
– update on the implementation of the Intensive Response
Team
26 May 2024
Funding Request: Improving outcomes and public value –
residential care
6 June 2024
Excerpt from Transformation Management Board Meeting 6
June 2024
July 2024
My Home, My Choice Programme Report
August 2024
My Home, My Choice Programme Report
August 2024
Update to the Transformation Management Board following
the Independent Review of Whaikaha and subsequent Cabinet
decisions
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Any internal correspondence within the Ministry regarding the
programme, including but not limited to, any repositioning of the
programme by the new government, whether the work completed to
date should be shared publicly, advice provided by advisors within the
Ministry, discussions regarding the findings from consultation with
service providers and service users, consideration of the findings of the
Royal Commission regarding abuse in care.
The Ministry has identified some relevant email correspondence, which will be
released to you, however finding all internal correspondence on the topic of the My
Home My Choice programme would require substantial research and collation,
therefore the majority of this part of your request is refused under section 18(f) of the
OIA.
We believe the documentation that will be released to you next week will provide you
with the information you are seeking, however after reading you are welcome to make
a more refined request for internal correspondence.
•
Any advice and/or external correspondence regarding the programme,
including but not limited to, correspondence with Ministers, third
parties or researchers
You will be provided copies of advice provided to the Minister for Disability Issues. No
advice or correspondence from other external parties or researchers has been
identified as in scope.
I note information about My Home, My Choice was also provided in the publicly
available 2024 Briefing to the Incoming Minister, which can be found here:
https://www.whaikaha.govt.nz/assets/About-us/Corporate-
Publications/BIMs/Whaikaha-2024-BIM.pdf
I will be in touch within the next week to provide you with the documentation outlined
in this decision letter.
If you are not satisfied with this response, you have the right to seek an investigation
and review by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is
available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or 0800 802 602.
Ngā mihi nui
Emma Williams
Manager, Ministerial and Executive Services
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