Home & Community Support

Published 2026/27 HCSS/IBT funding terms: 2.66% increase and conditional additional 1.1%. Operational terms do not measure delivered support or adoption of the wider advisory reforms.

It creates a credible provider-led PiP discussion because suppliers must consider natural and community supports and technology as alternatives to paid assistance, while meeting detailed service, subcontracting, privacy, security, accessibility and reporting requirements.

Official first-stage Registration of Interest for the Northern HCSS procurement.

Source: Australian Government, My Aged Care (https://www.myagedcare.gov.au); Australian National Audit Office, Management of My Aged Care (2023).

Assistance with intimate daily activities that a person cannot manage independently.

Twenty-page joint NGO response to the draft Carers’ Strategy Action Plan, calling for explicit inclusion of informal kinship and whānau carers and support based on care needs rather than statutory status.

Ten-page Cabinet paper seeking agreement in principle to a rolling Carers’ Strategy Action Plan and public consultation.

HCHA's primary annual account of its 2024/25 governance, membership, advocacy, government engagement, funding concerns, workforce work and partnership agenda.

One-page HCHA impact dashboard linking advocacy, influence and insight to government engagement, member communications, research partnerships, technology education and evidence-informed funding work.

Official award notice for the Te Waipounamu HCSS model, identifying four contracted providers that are the most direct current provider-led routes for a bounded PiP test in the region.

It signals a $100 million-plus, bulk-funded and restorative service model with digital enablement and an intended September 2026 contract start; it is not an open PiP funding application.

Whaikaha’s ten-page August 2023 contract specification describes disability-funded home and community support, including household management, personal care and overnight support.

July 2021, 60-page MSD carer-navigation booklet covering money, support people, equipment and a directory; the preserved guide remains useful for planning questions, while dated benefit and transport rules need current checks.

2020 commissioning and service-design framework for DHB-funded older-person home support, with seven principles, nine core components and draft outcome measures; implementation intentions are not delivery evidence.