Initiative	Description	Funding Commitment ($ millions over 4 yrs) [Years 2000/01-2003/04]
Maori Language Education	Supporting the growth and strengthening the quality of Maori language education. Includes additional language teaching materials/additional staffing/operational allowances for Kura Kaupapa Maori.	19.969
Responsiveness of education for Maori	Improving the quality and responsiveness of education for Maori. Includes enabling Maori to engage and influence the provision of education	10.400
Maori teacher supply	Increase the supply of both Maori and Maori-medium teachers	12.860
Needs analysis for registration of Kura Kaupapa Maori teachers	Training needs analysis of Kura Kaupapa Maori teachers (one year funding)	0.275
Maori Participation Initiative	Support Maori students through mentoring and financial assistance to enable them to attend State schools	11.228
Pacific teacher supply	Increase the number of Pacific teachers	3.584
Pacific Language materials	Materials for teachers to support the teaching of Pacific languages	2.000
Pacific Pool of the Discretionary Grants Scheme	Increased funding that provides capital assistance to community based, not for profit, ECE services.Targets the establishment of Pacific ECE services	7.250
Measures to recruit Maori and Pacific peoples to early childhood education (ECE) teaching	Two-year campaigns to attract Maori and Pacific people into early childhood teaching	1.000
Extending pre- and post-licensing support and administrative upskilling for Pacific ECE services	To increase the number of licensed and chartered Pacific ECE services	0.340
Additional support for at-risk community-based ECE services	Establishment of a full-time HELP desk using an 0800 freephone as additional support for centres that are at-risk	0.480
Education Advocacy Service	Establishment of a dedicated education advocacy service in the Office of the Commissioner for Children	0.700
Equity funding working party	Establishment of a working party to develop criteria and costings for equity funding for community-based ECE services (one year funding)	0.060
Resource teachers: literacy	Establish 121 resource teachers: literacy to provide specialised teaching for those most at risk	20.422
Homework centres	To provide tuition and supervise study for primary school students at risk of underachievement	7.500
Innovations pool	Further trialing of promising innovations for meeting the needs of at-risk students	4.500
Alternative education	Expansion of current alternative education programme from 1000 places to 1820 places by 1 Jan 2001	34.820
Special Education 2000 Review	Provision for possible policy changes arising from an independent review of aspects of the Special Education 2000 Framework	48.000
Literacy/numeracy materials development	Additional materials to guide teachers to raise literacy achievement of students	3.200
Gateway	Establishment of the Gateway programme for a 2-yr evaluation to improve transition from school to work (reprioritised funding)	4.000
Drug education	Training to support schools in providing drug education (one year funding)	0.950
Teen parent support programmes	Assistance for teen parents in support programmes	0.316
Maori tertiary education strategy	The Maori tertiary education strategy will develop co-ordinated approaches to raise participation and achievement of Maori in tertiary education (funding for two years)	0.400
Equity initiatives in tertiary education	Funding for new initiatives to enable Maori, Pacific peoples and other under-represented groups to overcome barriers to tertiary education participation and achievement	3.500
Post-school pathways strategy, including adult and community education and adult literacy	An integrated policy and funding approach to post-school pathways into tertiary education	8.000
Research on education patterns and removal of barriers for Pacific peoples	Determining barriers to participation of Pacific peoples in tertiary education (funding for two years)	0.100
Employment: Maori economic and organisational development	Capacity building for Maori, assisting whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori communities to identify needs and develop initiatives To work at a local level with Maori, to realise the economic potential of under- or non-utilised multiply-owned Maori land by funding feasibility studies and assist with the implementation of solutions that provide economic benefits and local employment opportunities	20.467
Pacific peoples’ organisational development	Develop and strengthen organisational capacity and capability of Pacific peoples’ community group	6.931
Child Youth & Family: provider and workforce development	Provide a workforce development fund including iwi social services – innovations fund for original proposals	14.052
CYF: Pacific Provider Development Fund	Build the capacity of Pacific community-based organisations	3.110
CYF: Maori Youth Contestable Fund	Contestable fund for initiatives developed by Maori communities which aim to reduce Maori youth offending	10.000
CYF: Youth services strategy	This strategy aims to reduce serious and persistent re-offending and improve life outcomes for high-risk youth	41.382
CYF: Core Services	Continuation of core services baseline funding to maintain an additional 65 social workers and employ a further 22 in 2000/01; national Call Centre and 5 additional community liaison social workers	46.908
CYF: Family Violence Prevention Services	Increased funding for not-for-profit organisations providing family violence prevention services including women’s refuge services	4.500
CYF: Youth Horizons Trust	Maintenance of specialist residential and therapeutic programme for 29 young people with diagnosed severe conduct disorder	10.360
CYF: Wraparound programme for youth at risk of offending	Intensive and individualised community-based care for 100 young people with multiple problems in South Auckland (one year funding)	0.950
CYF: Maori community initiatives	Funding initiatives developed by community-based Maori groups in 5 communities, catering for 225 young people at risk of offending (one year funding)	$0.399
CYF: Enhanced family group conference	Better resourcing of care and protection and youth justice family group conference plans	15.563
Social Services: investing in Maori communities	Assisting whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori communities to identify their needs and support communities to develop their capacity (three-year funding)	3.000
Social Services: evaluation of Pacific Peoples’ Provider Development Fund	Monitor and evaluate the development fund to determine the success of this initiative in improving outcomes for Pacific children and young people and their families (two year funding	0.225
Work & Income: Maori Women’s Development Fund	To assist Maori women to access financial assistance and support to enter into or expand their business.Includes enterprise training skills, leadership training, mentoring, advice, support and information to Maori women	13.968
Work & Income: Training Incentive Allowance amendment	Abolition of 40% co-payment, extend eligibility to allow people who have completed a degree course within last 5 years to receive Training Incentive Allowance for short-term employment-related training	32.000
Work & Income: Improve access to special benefits	The removal of the standard $5 deduction from the assessed entitlement of special benefit thus increasing recipient’s purchasing power to help alleviate financial hardship	11.327
Work & Income: Community Employment organisations (includes wage subsidy transfer)	Improve outcomes of at-risk groups who are over-represented on the unemployment register (reprioritised)	24.600
Employment future work trends	Analysis of future trends in work both globally and in New Zealand including work on digital divide and how to improve outcomes for at-risk groups (three year funding)	2.094
Health: Maori provider development	Provider development for Maori (reprioritised funding)	10.000
Mental health	Funding to be targeted at reducing service gaps in areas of greatest need including workforce development for Maori and Pacific peoples	257.400
Oral health	To improve oral health, particularly amongst adolescents and aimed at Maori and Pacific peoples and other children at risk (one year funding)	15.188
Immunisation	Reprioritised funding to secure better immunisation rates particularly for Maori and Pacific (one year funding)	11.813
Smoking cessation for Maori	Programmes aimed at Maori including counselling and nicotine replacement therapy	18.00
Smoking cessation	Additional funding to continue 6 pilots and evaluation to reach 3000 women (one year funding)	1.150
Te Puni Kokiri: capacity building	Increased funding to provide hapu, iwi and Maori organisations with ability to assess strengths, weaknesses/preparation of development plans	8.625
TPK: organisational capacity	Increased operating funding to improve capacity of TPK	12.250
TPK: additional funding for TPK to implement initiatives coming up from communities	Additional funding to implement initiatives in response to assessments provided by communities	27.500
TPK: effectiveness auditing	Extra funding for effectiveness audits of selected government programmes and services	11.636
Additional police youth aid staff	15% increase in staff for 3 districts with high youth populations and limited resources (Hamilton, Counties Manukau, West Auckland)	9.936
Police-run programmes for youth at risk	Expansion of existing programme: 5 new police-run programme for youth at risk	2.000
Non-sworn youth workers (Police)	5 new youth workers to work alongside sworn officers to implement youth at risk programmes and other initiatives	1.000
Neighbourhood-based safety programme in Gisborne	A new neighbourhood-based safety programme to work in partnership with Te Runanga 0 Turanganui a Kiwa	0.205
Maori community initiatives for youth at risk	Expansion of existing programme which involves Maori communities generating solutions to the problems of their youth considered to be at risk of offending (one year funding)	0.399
Educational and vocational training for prison inmates	New funding to improve employment skills for 800 more inmates (significant numbers of Maori and Pacific inmates will benefit)	16.980
Tikanga Maori Programmes	Expansion of existing programme to provide Tikanga Maori programmes for an additional 650 inmates and 400 offenders on community-based sentences in addition to the 679 offenders who participate currently	3.620
Court-referred restorative justice pilot	Courts will pilot Court-referred restorative justice scheme for comparatively serious offenders in two main centres and a rural centre	4.884
Expansion of community-managed restorative justice programme	Funding for 5 more community-managed restorative justice programmes with priority to developing programmes for Maori and Pacific peoples	1.725
Extension of Courts services to victims’ programme	Employment of 25 more victims’ advisors with training and selection including meeting the needs of Maori and Pacific victims	6.281
Pacific Island Affairs: community workers	Establishment of Pacific community workers to assist in the implementation of capacity building	2.252
Community advisory and information services	Piloting of a more devolved delivery mechanism with 2 community development workers to be placed directly into Maori community organisations	0.750
Housing Action Zones	6 pilots will trial the success of increasing the supply and quality of housing in each area using initiatives specifically targeted at the needs of low-income households in the East Coast, Northland and Auckland regions	2.800
Housing Action Zones	Capital costs for the 6 pilots	18.835
Transport: new community education initiatives	Community education initiatives with major focus on Maori and Pacific communities	11.252
Transport: Maori and Pacific communities communications initiatives	Communication initiatives covering speed, alcohol, safety-belts	4.500
Transport: Maori and Pacific communities communications initiatives – other local safety issues	Special emphasis on building stronger road safety partnerships with Maori and Pacific communities	3.938

This summary includes the main items but is not exhaustive