Speaking with Local Democracy Reporting, Stoltz said the bid was \u201can ambitious and exciting step for our region\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe council supports a united bid for social investment in Tair\u0101whiti because its important decisions are made closer to the wh\u0101nau and communities they affect.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes sense to align housing, health, education and employment investment with what Tair\u0101whiti knows will make the biggest difference for us in the places it\u2019s needed most.\u201d<\/p>\n
Manaaki Tair\u0101whiti strategic adviser Judy Campbell and Te Aitanga a Mahaki chief executive Willie Te Aho are on the region\u2019s community commission working group, forming the \u201cTair\u0101whiti Bid\u201d for funding.<\/p>\n
Campbell told LDR the $1.4b spent in the region for social services was an estimate from an economist.<\/p>\n
She and Te Aho gave a presentation at a council environment and communities committee meeting this month.<\/p>\n
Campbell said if Tair\u0101whiti could make choices on how the $1.4b was spent, it would \u201chave a better impact for our wh\u0101nau, our community and our GDP\u201d.<\/p>\n
The \u201cvote Tair\u0101whiti\u201d concept meant they did not want the funds \u201cby the slices\u201d, meaning \u201ca bit for housing, a bit for health and a bit for education\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot contracts but devolution, and a vote process that is regionally based as opposed to subject-matter based,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want the whole sum provided to the region for a regional entity to make the decisions on how it is split and spent.\u201d<\/p>\n
What will the entity look like?<\/p>\n
Campbell said they were starting to investigate draft operating principles before creating the entity, and it would be owned by the community \u201cin some kind of way\u201d.<\/p>\n
It would be a non-profit ownership and would ensure relevant regional organisations had a say on how commissioning happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conflict of interest management policy would be strong.\u201d<\/p>\n
There would be an elected \u201cskills-based\u201d board made up of individuals who had \u201csome distance\u201d between the money coming in and funds being given to providers in the region.<\/p>\n
According to a Manaaki Tair\u0101whiti statement, the bid was being developed by a regional working group led by Manaaki Tair\u0101whiti and Toit\u016b Tair\u0101whiti Builtsmart Ltd.<\/p>\n
Manaaki Tair\u0101whiti is a regional collective that encompasses iwi, the council, Trust Tair\u0101whiti, government agencies and the networks of Non-Government Organisations that provide social services.<\/p>\n
The working group represented Te Aitanga a M\u0101haki, Rongowhakaata and Ng\u0101i T\u0101manuhiri, Te R\u016bnanga o T\u016branganui a Kiwa (including its subsidiary service providers), T\u016branga Health and Toit\u016b Tair\u0101whiti Housing Limited.<\/p>\n
Te R\u016bnanganui o Ng\u0101ti Porou was not a part of the bid, as it was conducting its own process on community commissioning, the statement said.<\/p>\n
Campbell said they were using Toit\u016b housing as a case study.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany know the Toit\u016b housing story that started at five houses a year and is now doing 50-plus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell said people in the current system \u201chardly ever get out\u201d.<\/p>\n
The entity would not \u201cbe prescriptive about the way in which providers deliver services\u201d and would work with providers to measure outcomes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to have devolution from the Government to then act as though we are the Government.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u2018Big Picture\u2019<\/p>\n
Te Aho said he wanted to paint a \u201cbig picture\u201d.<\/p>\n
The government investment tagged for this region was used across health, housing, education, social services, and for the development of the workforce and the economy, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite that, we have some of the worst social deprivation in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to data shown during the presentation, 35,000 out of 52,000 residents required some form of Crown assistance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIwi organisations with the highest social deprivation have $30 million of $1.5 billion, so this model is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
They believed they had to take a \u201clong-term perspective\u201d and could halve overheads by having a commissioning agency.<\/p>\n
By year 11, they would have increased the GDP by $1.8 billion a year, he said.<\/p>\n
This would be achieved by reducing social deprivation … \u201clifting the work skills and moving [people] into the workforce and increasing productivity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Community Commissioning engagement hui are happening throughout the region, with dates advertised on the Manaaki Tair\u0101whiti website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking with Local Democracy Reporting, Stoltz said the bid was \u201can ambitious and exciting step for our region\u201d.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22256,104798,8613,124,40147,58508,2082,738,36091,12506,266,1426,26477,440,44406,111,43,139,69,90,59742,15400,5659,2552,1072,30279,1361,34367],"class_list":["post-158978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-22256","tag-14b","tag-billion","tag-could","tag-estimated","tag-eyeing","tag-for","tag-funding","tag-funds","tag-gisborne","tag-government","tag-investment","tag-leaders","tag-local","tag-managed","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pathway","tag-push","tag-say","tag-service","tag-social","tag-tairwhiti","tag-that","tag-transform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}