Submissions

Summary:  The Salvation Army supports this Bill in principle. We submit that the changes covered in this Bill will have some important benefits to the people and whanau using our services. However, there are some aspects of the wider review of Legal Aid and this process that we believe could...

Summary The Salvation Army welcomes to clear goals to focus on supporting families and households experiencing cost of living pressures and prioritising crucial government services of health, education and housing.  We support the Wellbeing approach to intergenerational wellbeing and use of He Ara Waiora framework to guide work to reduce...

Summary:  Overall, The Salvation Army opposes the passing of this Bill into law. There are some aspects of the Bill that we do support which are discussed below. However, after this extremely drawn-out process that began back in 2018 to review the Charities Act 2005, the Bill that has subsequently...

Summary  The Salvation Army strongly supports the stated purpose of this Bill to “improve compliance and enforcement legislation to deter employers from exploiting migrant workers”.  The narrow scope of this Bill does not however adequately address the extent of the problem of migrant worker exploitation and potentially risks increasing exploitation...

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”.