Submissions

Summary Overall, The Salvation Army appreciates the intentions of this Bill to address and improve accessibility issues for disabled people in New Zealand. It is positive that there is an appetite and drive for change from our Parliamentarians in this area. This follows from the momentum of establishing the Ministry...

Summary  The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora supports the introduction of a Code of Practice (COP) for transitional housing. The draft Code is overall a good basis to work from but further changes to clarify it are needed.  The COP will require the funders to be proactive in monitoring TH...

Introduction The Salvation Army welcomes this briefing document that captures well key trends and the issues relating to imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2022. The Long Term Insights (LTI) Briefing provides sound evidence and analysis that will inform the future of justice policy.  The Salvation Army’s vision for imprisonment...

Executive Summary Due to the limited timeframe to provide feedback on this consultation we have only addressed certain areas in the discussion document (5,6,7.3). Given the breadth of the document and the many areas, we work in that cross paths with those in Corrections we would have appreciated a greater...

Summary  The Salvation Army supports increasing the minimum wage to maintain its real value after inflation and wage increases.  The rationale for the minimum wage should be based on a return from labour that enables income adequacy for lower paid workers such as that used for setting the Living Wage. ...

The Salvation Amy opposes the passing of this Bill into law. This stance is based on the following reasons: a. We believe the Bill goes against the purpose and objects of the SSAA 2012.

The Salvation Army supports the recommendations made by the Law Commission for the Search and Surveillance Act. We do however recommend that under the law commission’s recommendations for Policy Statements that these policy statements include reference to the articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the exercising of its powers...

The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora strongly supports the objective of the legislative proposal to “reduce modern slavery and worker exploitation in New Zealand and elsewhere, helping to build practices based on fairness and respect”. 

The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora considers that the scope of the Working For Families (WFF) review is too narrow and must expressly incorporate the Government’s wellbeing objectives on child poverty and wellbeing for Māori and Pacific people. 

The Salvation Army supports the principles and critical shifts proposed for the mental health and addiction system and service framework (SSF) 2022–2032. We acknowledge that this is an aspirational document that will govern a high-level framework that seeks to transform the current system.

The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora supports the objectives of this Bill to enable employers and employees to negotiate collectively for industry or sector-wide minimum employment terms.

The Salvation Army Te Ope Whakaora does not support introducing income insurance in the form proposed. The changes proposed represent a major shift in our social security system.