Community and voluntary sector issues

Other Agencies

Areas of Interest

Agriculture and Forestry

Implications for rural communities

Child, Youth and Family Services (Ministry of Social Development)

Community funding, general voluntary sector issues

Civil Defence and Emergency Management

Implications for Civil Defence volunteers

Consumer Affairs

Consumer issues including consumer representation

Corrections

Community based and prison based voluntary programmes, kaumatua access to prisons, Fautua Pasifika and whanau involvement

Culture and Heritage

Implications for community cultural development and voluntary involvement

Economic Development

Implications for regional development

Education

Iwi and community capacity issues

Foreign Affairs and Trade, including NZAID

Non-governmental organisations with international interests

Health

Implications for community health and disability support

Inland Revenue

Tax status of voluntary organisations

Justice

Legal structure of community organisations, human rights issues, implications for community law centres

Labour

Implications for community economic development, community access to information and communications technology, and immigration

Ministry of Youth Development (Ministry of Social Development)

Initiatives that impact on child and youth development

Office for Disability Issues (Ministry of Social Development)

Implications for non-government organisations with disability interests, capacity building issues

Office of Ethnic Affairs (Department of Internal Affairs)

Issues affecting ethnic communities

Police

Implications for community policing

Te Puni Kokiri (Ministry of Maori Development)

Implications for Maori