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Date
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Request
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Response
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23/05/2024
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Parental leave policy and any relevant documents that outline support extended to employees during parental leave and returning to work
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parental leave policy [PDF, 370 KB]
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23/05/2024
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Total spend on contractors and consultants from 1 January 2004 – present, broken down by month (including April 2024 if possible).
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contractor and consultant spend [PDF, 259 KB]
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09/05/2024
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Commitments to transparency and partnership set out in the Algorithm Charter for Aotearoa|New Zealand.
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how decisions made by the organisation are informed by algorithms;
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how your organisation is delivering clear public benefits through Treaty of Waitangi commitments by embedding a te ao Maaori perspective in the organisation's development and use of algorithms consistent with the Treaty of Waitangi;
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how your organisation has, or intends to, identify and consult with people, communities and groups who have an interest in algorithms, including Maaori;
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how your organisation makes sure data is fit for purpose by identifying and managing bias;
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how privacy, ethics, and human rights are safeguarded by regular peer reviews of algorithms to assess for unintended consequences, and how the organisation acts on this information; and
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setting out the nominated point of contact for public inquiries about algorithms - together with any internal policies, principles, rules, or guidelines that relate to the above matters.
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Algorithm Charter and data stewardship [PDF, 5.2 MB]
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19/04/2024
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Copies of all proposal documents prepared to give effect to the Government’s directive to reduce expenditure in the public service, including but not limited to reduction of staff numbers and resulting redundancies.
If no such specific proposal document exists, please provide copies of all documents concerning the reduction of staff and redundancies from 27 November 2023 to present
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proposal documents [PDF, 191 KB]
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27/03/2024
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Any secondary briefing provided by your agency to your agency’s ministers/s since 27 November 2023.
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secondary briefings to Minister [PDF, 191 KB]
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27/03/2024
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- Any briefings provided to a Minister or Ministers to support conversations the Minister(s) has had with representatives of lobbying groups?
- if briefings have been provided, please also provide any related correspondence between or within agencies/departments/ministries and/or with the Minister or their staff.
- A copy of any correspondence the Minister's Office forwarded to the Department from representatives of lobbying groups.
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Lobbying groups [PDF, 230 KB]
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23/02/2024
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Any correspondence received by you between 1 December 2023 and today from your agency’s responsible minister, the Minister of Finance, Treasury, or any other Minister or Agency regarding the fiscal sustainability programme, including any savings required by your agency.
Any letters of expectation or guidance from Te Kawa Mataaho received by you between
1 December 2023 and today regarding change management or employment relations.
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Ministerial correspondence [PDF, 1.2 MB]
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21/02/2024
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All advice, briefings, memos or any other documents provided by your agency staff or representatives regarding the roles and responsibilities of ministers, their portfolio, policies, and upcoming work, since 20 November 2023.
All advice, briefings, draft briefings to incoming ministers, memos or any other documents provided by your agency staff or representatives briefing the incoming minister, since 20 November 2023.
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copies of initial briefings [PDF, 191 KB]
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21/02/2024
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- Copies of all internal correspondence sent or received by any Social Wellbeing Agency staff regarding a request of savings from the Minister of Finance for the 2024/25 financial year, since 20 November 2023.
- Copies of all external correspondence sent or received between Social Wellbeing Agency staff and the Minister of Finance or her office requesting savings for the 2024/25 financial year, since 20 November 2023.
- Copies of all correspondence sent or received by any Social Wellbeing Agency staff regarding a request of savings from the Minister of Finance for the 2024/25
financial year, since 20 November 2023.
- Copies of all advice, briefings, memos or any other documents provided Social Wellbeing Agency staff regarding a request of savings from the Minister of Finance for the 2024/25 financial year, since 20 November 2023.
- Any further reports the Minister or her Office have received from Social Wellbeing Agency staff regarding a request of savings from the Minister of Finance for the 2024/25
financial year, since 20 November 2023.
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budget 2024 savings information [PDF, 282 KB]
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19/02/2024
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Information related to staff employed in ICT and digital roles.
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ICT roles [PDF, 240 KB]
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31/01/2024
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Request for documents and information related to the Social Wellbeing Agency's role during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID 19 Lessons Learned [PDF, 18 MB]
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16/01/2024
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All costs associated with the creation your agency’s brand/logo. Including, but not limited to consultation, design, advertising, introducing the brand change, etc since 2017.
A timeline of all branding changes, and the corresponding total cost of each change.
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Costs for Agency branding [PDF, 265 KB]
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20/12/2023
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- A list of all words, terms, and phrases that the Minister or any member of their Office has directed officials to not use in briefings, letters, emails, memos, aides-memoires or any other documents, or in meetings.
- A list of all directions to officials regarding the length, style or make up of all briefings, letters, emails, memos, aides-memoires or any other documents.
- A copy of any style guide used internally in the Minister’s Office or given to officials by the Minister’s Office.
- What directions, if any, has the Minister or their Office given to officials regarding the use of the word “equity”?
- What directions, if any, has the Minister or their Office given to officials regarding the use of the word “fairness”?
- What directions, if any, has the Minister or their Office given to officials regarding the use of the word “wellbeing”?
- What directions, if any, has the Minister or their Office given to officials regarding the use of Te Reo?
- What directions, if any, has the Minister or their Office given to officials regarding the use of pronouns?
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Ministerial direction on style and language [PDF, 198 KB]
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15/12/2023
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- What was the department's Taxi expenditure for the 2022/23 financial year?
- What was the department’s expenditure on ridesharing apps (such as Uber, Ola, Zoomy, YourRide etc) for the 2022/23 financial year?
If the agency does not separate out taxi expenditure from other ride sharing expenditure, please indicate whether ridesharing or taxi use is the default/most common when such a service is needed and provide and a rough estimate of the proportion of trips that are taken via ridesharing vs taxi
- What was the department's expenditure on public transport (busses, trains, ferries, etc) for the 2022/23 financial year?
- What was the department’s other road travel expenditure (running costs of vehicles owned by your agencies, hire cars etc but excluding flights) for the 2022/23 financial year?
- Does the department have internal policies banning their staff or advising them against using ride-sharing apps for work travel? If so, what are these policies?
- Does the department have any concerns about their staff using ride-sharing apps for work travel?
- If the department does not currently use ridesharing, please indicate why not? Similarly, if the department does not use ridesharing as the default over taxis, please indicate why not.
- Has the department purchased any vehicles over the 2022/2023 financial year? If so, how many were electric, diesel and petrol and what was the cost of these purchases broken down by vehicle type (electric, diesel, petrol)?
- What is the running cost of all the department’s vehicles?
- Please provide an estimate on the number of kilometers traveled by staff via land transport in the 2022/23 financial year.
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transport costs [PDF, 443 KB]
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04/10/2023
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Consultation and Decision Documents that were generated and circulated between 1st July 2016 and 30th June 2021 as part of any restructure, reorganisation, or (dis)establishment of a team, business unit or directorate within the Social Wellbeing Agency.
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consultation and decision documents for restructure [PDF, 17 MB]
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21/09/2023
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- Policies, guidelines, and/or general information provided to Toi Hau Tāngata employees regarding working from home or other flexible/remote/hybrid working arrangements that were in effect before 21 March 2020.
- Policies, guidelines, and/or general information provided to Toi Hau Tāngata employees regarding working from home or other flexible/remote/hybrid working arrangements that have been put in place or changed on or after 21 March 2020.
- Policies, guidelines, and/or general information regarding reasonable accommodations for
disabled employees at Toi Hau Tāngata that were in effect before 21 March 2020.
- Policies, guidelines, and/or general information regarding reasonable accommodations for
disabled employees at Toi Hau Tāngata that have been put in place or changed on or after 21
March 2020.
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WFH policies [PDF, 1.5 MB]
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21/08/2023
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A list of all events the agency has held or had some responsibility for hosting that cost in excess of $10,000 over the past year? Can the total cost for each of these events please be provided, along with a breakdown of what contributed to the costs? It would be helpful to also know the business purpose or justification for each event as well
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events costing over $10,000 [PDF, 183 KB]
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07/06/2023
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I would like an extract of the annual amount spent with all suppliers for the 2021/2022 financial year. I would like this data in an open format, csv or json formats would be suitable.I would like the following details provided:
- Supplier Name
- Suppliers NZBN number (if available)
- Total Amount Spent
Please provide the GST Exclusive amount spent.
I believe this information would be readily available via an extract from your Accounts Payable system.
I have already received similar data from a number of Government organisations, which implies this information can be treated as open data.
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supplier spending for 2021/22 [PDF, 243 KB]
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17/02/2023
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All information regarding the total amount spent on consultants—per consultancy firm—for each of the last six years. Please note that the annual reviews do not provide the total amount spent on consultants, per consultancy firm.
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consultant spend [PDF, 247 KB]
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13/02/2023
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advice, recommendations, assessments, warnings, risk assessments, updates, reports and analyses you have produced or received by the Social Wellbeing Agency regarding youth crime, the drivers/causes of youth crime and potential policies/law changes/regulations/initiatives/programmes might respond to youth crime since 1 June 2022 that are not in the public domain.
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Youth crime [PDF, 247 KB]
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