Please share your views on the MoE announcement

The New Zealand Down Syndrome Association (NZDSA) is aware that our members will have personal responses to the announcement by the Minister of Education, the Hon. Hekia Parata, regarding the Cabinet’s July 2016 decisions to Strengthen inclusion and modernise learning support as well as the Learning Support (previously Special Education) Update. To read the July 2016 Cabinet Paper "Strengthening inclusion and modernising learning support" please click here.

The NZDSA and NZDSED (New Zealand Down Syndrome Education Advisory Group) invite you to share your views via Survey Monkey, so that we can collate the views of all our members and then submit our collective views to the Ministry of Education for an official response. We would appreciate you answering all the questions but if you’re time poor could you please just respond to question 2.

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* 1. What is your initial reaction to the “July 2016 Cabinet paper Strengthening inclusion and modernising learning support” and the “Learning Support” (previously Special Education) Update?

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* 2. What are your key concerns?

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* 3. What aspects would you like the Ministry of Education to clarify?

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* 4. What questions would you like the Ministry of Education to answer?

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* 5. Do you feel you understand the implications of the “July 2016 Cabinet paper Strengthening inclusion and modernising learning support” and the “Learning Support” (previously Special Education) Update?

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* 6. What are the strengths?

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* 7. Any other comments? Please add/explain here

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* 8. The NZDSA are interested in being able to pick up regional differences to the above questions, could you please indicate the region you reside

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