Resources for policy makers

Disability Toolkit for Policy

A disability analysis tool to help you as a policy practitioner to explore the disability implications of your policy as you move through the policy process. This toolkit is designed to help you provide frank and robust advice to decision-makers through the inclusion of a disability lens.

• Step 1: Thinking about disability issues at the start of the policy process
• Step 2: Engaging with the disability community
• Step 3: Embedding disability into the policy issue
• Step 4: Incorporating disability into the policy options
• Step 5: Incorporating disability into Cabinet papers, information and communications
• Step 6: Considering disability throughout implementation
• Step 7: Considering how disability outcomes can be monitored and evaluated
• Help! A disability toolkit cheat sheet
• Things you should know: Definitions, concepts and approaches

Literature review: social exclusion

A literature review carried out for MSD in 2014

Employer attitudes toward employing disabled people

Research was commissioned in 2012 to explore New Zealand employers’ attitudes towards employing disabled people.

Mapping the change

This mapping report explores activities related to social marketing and social change for the Think Differently campaign which was run by the Ministry of Social Development up to 2016.