The Salvation Army “State of the Nation” report suggests a number of contradictory indicators at work in New Zealand’s wellbeing. This report publishes in 2016 provides information and some rationale for the selected indicators. In particular, while average weekly wages have increased inequality is also rising. This demonstrates the dangers of using averages without acknowledging […]
Chairperson: David Haigh David has an MA in sociology and diplomas in public health, community work and professional ethics. He has been self-employed, carrying out social policy research for local authorities, NGOs and Iwi. He is also a lecturer at Unitec in the Department of Social Practice and an external examiner for the Planning Department at […]
Governance Essentials for Board and Committee Members is an on-line governance training course developed by Governance Strategies and Xperts for people in governance positions to understand the key aspects of the role. Real-world learning is spread across four weeks (up to 3 hours per week) with interesting weekly research and reflection assignments. Governance Essentials for […]
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 comes into force on April 4, 2016. The new legislation does provide exemptions for volunteer organisations, associations and charities. If you are running a charity or a volunteer organisation it is important to know where you fit under the new workplace health and safety law. Read an […]
David Haigh’s summary and impressions of Alan Johnson (Salvation Army Policy Analyst) talk on the topic of housing. Housing Issues in Auckland
For those of you who missed it…..the links to the slides from this webinar and a short version of the webinar itself.
ADCOSS Publication: Community Development and Social Change. By Ewen Derrick ADCOSS has recently published the forth edition of this popular community development book. The publication contains all the original material from Ewen plus four new papers written by experienced social practitioners. Earlier editions were read by many people including community workers, students, policy analysts, […]
A reminder that the new Health and Safety at Work Act will come into effect in April 2016. The following link will take you to a short summary prepared by Megan Thomas, and links to further information so you can prepare for this in your organisation.
Following on from our Age Friendly City Forum in August 2015 ADCOSS made a presentation to the Auckland Community Development Committee at their October 2015 meeting. The submission was oral but here is a copy of the hand out we left with them. We then followed this up with by meeting with Mayor Len Brown […]
Supplementary ADCOSS Evidence Auckland Council Unitary Plan 079 Special Character and pre-1944 Mapping
Plunket and SKIP are looking for parents to interview for our CBD project – Experiences of parents living in inner city Auckland. The design team would like to gain an understanding of what parenting is like for families living in the inner city and in particular those families who have children under five. They are […]
The recent debate on poverty in New Zealand presents a number of arguments, manifestations, causes and solutions. Many see the root causes in the neo-liberal polices since the mid 1980s, policies that resulted in the further enrichment of the wealthy and a consequential growing gap between rich and poor.