Hon Te Ururoa Flavell
Te Minita Whānau Ora
Minister for Whānau Ora
15 September 2015
Productivity Commission report supports Whānau Ora
Whānau Ora Minister, Te Ururoa Flavell welcomes the findings and recommendations of the New Zealand Productivity
Commission’s More Effective Social Services inquiry report which was released today.
“More Effective Social Services supports the idea that it may be the services that are hard to reach rather than the whānau”, says Mr Flavell.
The independent report looks at the entire social services system and advocates for system-wide change to social
services. The report highlights Whānau Ora as an innovative approach to reaching whānau that other social services have
struggled to reach.
“This is exactly our intention with the Whānau Ora approach – supporting the strengths that exist within Māori
communities to create change for themselves”, says Mr Flavell.
Mr Flavell says the report confirms the findings in Understanding Whānau Centred Approachesreport released last week “that Whānau Ora holds much potential to improve Māori wellbeing and to make a positive
difference to those who need it most”.
“I am pleased that this independent report recognises Whānau Ora as an innovative model, recognising the value of
navigators and the value of devolving management control (mana whakahaere) to commissioning agencies,” he says.
ENDS