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Demonstrate knowledge of living in a
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level:
6
credit:
6
planned review date:
June 2005
sub-field:
Social Services
purpose:
People credited with this unit standard are able to: analyse
and explain how social, cultural, and economic structures
and ideologies in Aotearoa New Zealand construct the
experience of disability; and analyse and explain how
different models of disability inform policy and practice.
entry information:
Open.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry and
teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed national moderation
system has been set up by Community Support Services ITO
Limited (Careerforce).
special notes:
1
People awarded credit in this unit standard are able to
implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the social services
according to the authority and resources available to
them, and are able to demonstrate application of this
competence to the context of assessment for this unit
standard (for further clarification, please refer to Unit
7928, Implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the social
services).
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Glossary:
Impairment is the functional limitation within the
individual caused by physical, mental or sensory
impairment. Source: Disabled Persons International
1982.
Disability is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take
part in the normal life of the community on an equal
level with others due to physical and social barriers.
Source: Disabled Persons International 1982.
"Disability is not something individuals have. What
individuals have are impairments.
They may be
physical, sensory, neurological, psychiatric, intellectual
or other impairments. Disability is the process which
happens when one group of people create barriers by
designing a world only for their way of living, taking no
account of the impairments other people have." Source:
New Zealand Disability Strategy 2001.
The critical/political model (sometimes referred to as
the social or social creation model) occurs in
institutionalised practices and the physical and social
environment designed for and by non-disabled people.
The liberal/consensual (or social construction) model
views disability as a problem located (or constructed) in
the minds of non-disabled people and manifest in
hostile social attitudes or ideological underpinnings of
discriminatory practices.
3
Significant social policy and legislative and regulatory
requirements (both historical and current) include:
Minister for Disability Issues. April 2001. The New
Zealand disability strategy: Making a world of
difference: Whakanui oranga. Wellington: Ministry of
Health;
Department of Labour. September 2001. Pathways to
inclusion: Ngā ara whakauru ki te iwi whānui: Improving
vocational services for people with disabilities.
Wellington: Department of Labour;
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Department of Social Welfare. 1990. Vocational
Opportunities Support Programme: Issues, policy, plan.
Wellington: Department of Social Welfare;
accident compensation legislation, including the
Accident Compensation Act 1982 and the Injury
Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act
2001;
Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’
Rights 1996;
Disabled Persons Community Welfare Act 1975;
Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act 1960;
Education Act 1989;
Employment Relations Act 2000;
Health and Disability Services Act 1993;
Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001;
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Human Rights Act 1993, Industrial Relations Act 1973;
Minimum Wages Act 1983;
Privacy Act 1993;
Public Health and Disability Act 2000;
State Sector Act 1988 (and associated Equal
Employment Opportunity EEO strategies);
New Zealand Standard (NZS) 8134:2001 Health and
Disability Sector Standards: Te Awarua o te Hauora,
available from Standards NZ - Paerewa Aotearoa:
Wellington.
4
Resources related to employment support may include
but are not limited to:
a
Ballard, Keith, ed. 1994.
Disability, family,
whanau and society. Palmerston North: Dunmore
Press.
b
Barnes, Colin; Mercer, G.; Shakespeare, Tom.
1999.
Exploring disability: A sociological
introduction. Cambridge, Malden, Mass: Polity
Press.
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Beatson, Peter. 2001. 2nd ed. The disability
revolution in New Zealand - a social map.
Palmerston North: Massey University.
Bennie, G.
1996.
Supported employment:
Origins, development and current status in New
Zealand. Levin: Network Publications.
Bennie, G. ed. 1996. Supported employment in
New Zealand: Getting the job done.
Levin:
Network Publications.
Kendrick, M. 1999. "Some Reflections on the
Struggle to Make a Real and Enduring
Difference". In Cross, A.; Sherwin, J.; Funnell, B.;
Rodgers, M., eds. Gathering the wisdom:
Changing realities in the lives of people with
disabilities.
Brisbane,
Australia:
CRU
Publications.
Munford, Robyn; Sullivan, Martin. eds. 1994.
Thinking critically about disability. Palmerston
North: Massey University.
Munford, Robyn; Sullivan, Martin. eds. 1998.
Thinking critically about disability Vol II.
Palmerston North: Massey University.
O’Brien, Patricia; Murray, Ray. 1997. Human
services: Towards partnership and support.
Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
Oliver, M. 1990. The politics of disablement.
London: Macmillan.
Oliver, M.; Barnes, C. 1998. Disabled people and
social policy: From exclusion to inclusion.
London: Longman.
Ratima, M. M.; (Mihi, M). 1995. He Anga
Whakamana: A framework for the delivery of
disability support services to Maori: A report to the
Core Services Committee. Palmerston North:
Massey University.
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Wolfensberger, Wolf. 1974 (1972). The principle
of normalization in human services: With
additional texts by Bengt Nirje [and others].
Toronto: National Institute on Mental Retardation.
Wright, P.
1999.
Breaking the barriers:
Empowering people with disabilities. Auckland:
NZCCS National Conference, 1999.
Wright, P. 1999. Human rights for people with
disabilities;
International
developments.
Auckland: NZCCS National Conference 1999.
Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Analyse and explain how social, cultural, and economic structures and ideologies in
Aotearoa New Zealand construct the experience of disability.
performance criteria
1.1
Historical and contemporary influences in Aotearoa New Zealand are analysed
and explained in terms of how they construct the experience of disability.
Range:
influences include but are not limited to - Māori and Tauiwi
perceptions of disability; economic development for Māori and
Tauiwi; competitive individualism; economic rationalism;
medicalisation of disability; social Darwinism; eugenics movement.
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1.2
The analysis explains and compares three models of disability.
Range:
1.3
models of disability - individual/medical, liberal/consensual,
critical/political.
The analysis identifies and explains barriers to employment for disabled people
in terms of their origin in social, cultural, and economic structures and
ideologies in Aotearoa New Zealand.
element 2
Analyse and explain how different models of disability inform policy and practice.
Range:
models of disability include but are not limited to - individual/medical,
liberal/consensual, critical/political.
performance criteria
2.1
The candidate's personal values are identified and explained in relation to
disabled people.
Range:
evidence is required of four personal values that are relevant to
working with disabled people within employment support work.
2.2
The analysis explains three models of disability, how they define employment of
people with disability as a problem, and how the models construct solutions to
the problem.
2.3
The analysis identifies the models of disability that underpin social policy and
legislative and regulatory requirements in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Range:
evidence is required of the matching of models of disability to
three of - social policy and legislative and regulatory requirements
in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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2.4
Significant social policy and legislative and regulatory requirements in Aotearoa
New Zealand affecting the lives and employment of disabled people are
analysed and explained in terms of their impact and effectiveness.
Range:
2.5
significant social policy and legislative and regulatory
requirements in Aotearoa New Zealand are listed in special note
3.
Evidence is required of six, which include - New Zealand Disability
Strategy 2001, Pathways to Inclusion 2001.
The analysis identifies and proposes changes to social policy and legislative
and regulatory requirements in Aotearoa New Zealand in terms of improved
opportunities for disabled people to gain and retain employment.
Range:
evidence is required of three proposed changes.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the Community Support Services ITO Limited (Careerforce)
info@careerforce.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit
standard.
Please Note
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority or a delegated interinstitutional body before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards
or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority before
they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for providers wishing to
develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and
assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is covered by AMAP 0222
http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
which can
be
accessed at
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