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Who manages funding at Child, Youth and Family?
The Contracting Group of Child, Youth and Family approves and contracts with community organisations to provide social services for children, young people, families and communities. It supports the development of new ways of working to help build stronger communities and to enable communities to provide better support for families and whanau.
Key functions of the Contracting Group are funding planning, approval of providers, partnering with providers contracted for high support services, coordination of service delivery for new initiatives, and the administration of the funding contracts.
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Who gets funding?
Locally-based community funding advisors consult with the community, other government agencies, and approvals and contracts staff to identify social services needs and capacity in their local communities. This needs and capacity assessment forms the basis of a regional funding plan that channels Child, Youth and Family funding to approved voluntary and private sector organisations providing services to our target groups. The plans aim to deliver the best mix of services to address priority needs in the region in consultation with communities and local agencies.
Our community funding advisors also work as brokers to develop joint local solutions to service needs. They are one of the main ways we keep an overview of what is happening in the community.
If you belong to an organisation that is interested in applying for funding from Child, Youth and Family, you will first need to speak to an advisor at your local Child, Youth and Family office. Call 0508 FAMILY (0508 326 459) to identify your nearest funding advisor.
Funding advisors will be looking for information from you on:
- the need that your service targets
- evidence that this is a high priority need in your community for the local needs analysis in your region)
- your target client group
- other support and links you have to the community.
They will also explain the various funding processes and timetables and provide more general advice about funding.
Child, Youth and Family funds many hundreds of different services and programmes throughout New Zealand. So if you want to set up a new initiative it is really important to check the Community Response Plan for your region to see if your project fits in with the priority needs established for your area and is not already being provided by another organisation.
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Approvals process
Every organisation that receives funding from Child, Youth and Family will have been through an approvals assessment process to check whether it can run a viable and quality service.
Two sets of standards are used by approvals assessors to evaluate the quality of a provider and its ability to provide a service to its clients:
1. Business viability (including finance, monitoring and governance)
2. Programme quality (including client intake and assessment, client planning and services planning),
These Standards for Approval are an essential part of our quality assurance role. They are designed to ensure that community organisations seeking formal approval status have the quality, management and administration of the services they provide assessed against consistent standards that meet legislative requirements.
If you are an organisation seeking approval, you will need to show that you meet the business viability standards and the programme quality standards for the types of service for which you wish to be approved.
When you enquire about approval, an Approvals team member will discuss the approval process and what is required of you. They can also give you advice on preparing any required documentation, as well as the process for ongoing assessment.
When you are being assessed against the Standards for Approval, our Approvals team takes into account the fact that organisations may be at different stages of development and will require flexibility to be able to provide services in their own way.
Your approval will be assessed regularly, unless you tell us that you wish to relinquish it.
The Standards for Approval for child and family support services and community services is available as a PDF file (395Kb) in the Related information box on the left-hand side of this page.
These Standards for Approval apply to most of the organisations we approve. They do not apply to organisations seeking approval as an:
- Iwi social service
- Cultural social service
- Intercountry adoption service
- Elder abuse and neglect prevention and coordination of intervention services service
- Out of School Care and Recreation (OSCAR) Services.
Standards for Approval for these categories are in separate booklets that are available for ordering by email from your local Child, Youth and Family Approvals team (except for OSCAR, see below.)
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Contracting services
When an organisation has been approved as a provider, it may then be formally contracted to provide a specific service if this service is a local priority.
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Out of School Care and Recreation (OSCAR) programmes
Child, Youth and Family awards approval to providers of before school, after school, or school holiday programmes for 5 to 13-year-olds.
Once your programme has received Child, Youth and Family approval it may be eligible to funding from the Ministry of Social Development. Families attending your programme may also be eligible to the OSCAR subsidy.
Our approvals process ensures that OSCAR programmes meet safety standards and have agreed codes of behaviour. To find out more about the approvals process see our Standards for approval for OSCAR programmes booklet.
The new Standards for Approval for OSCAR programmes now require Ministry of Education Early Childhood Education providers to complete the same process. To find out more contact an Approvals team member in one of the following areas:
| Auckland (North): |
0-9-985 4701 |
| Rotorua (Central): |
0-7-921 5042 |
| Wellington: |
0-4-918 9026 |
| Christchurch (South): |
0-3-955 6741 |
| National Oscar Advisor (for general OSCAR information) |
0-4-918 9237 |
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Other funding and information resources
Fundview: The Funding Information Service is a not-for-profit organisation that has information about funding for community groups in New Zealand.
http://www.fis.org.nz/
The Community Development Group: Part of the Department of Internal Affairs. CDG helps organisations meet the needs of their communities and provides funding, advice, information and training.
http://www.dia.govt.nz/
CommunityNet Aotearoa: Part of the Department of Internal Affairs. Offers an Internet presence for community organisations, a forum to discuss common issues, and easy links to useful information. It also advocates for community groups to participate equally in the benefits of information technology.
http://www.community.net.nz/
Community Information Service: Part of Lincoln University. Links New Zealand community groups to Lincoln University resources to help community enterprise development.
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/cis/default.htm
Work and Income
http://www.workandincome.govt.nz/
The Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
http://www.minpac.govt.nz/
The Ministry of Social Development
http://www.msd.govt.nz/
Te Puni Kokiri
http://www.tpk.govt.nz/
Inland Revenue Department publications and tax guides http://www.ird.govt.nz/library/publications/
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