Registration Of Interest for Additional Elder Abuse Response Services in four regions

⁠⁠⁠The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) wishes to procure new culturally responsive social service providers who have the capacity and the experience to deliver face-to-face services to support Māori, Pacific, and Ethnic older people who are experiencing or at risk of elder abuse.

The term of the service agreement will be from 1 October 2023 to 30 June 2026.

MSD currently funds social service providers to deliver Elder Abuse Response Services (EARS). This service addresses the immediate needs of older people experiencing or at risk of elder abuse. New Zealand has a diverse and ageing population. MSD intends to invest in culturally responsive providers based in the top four regions of the highest need of EARS:

• Auckland (West and South Auckland),

• Waikato (Thames/Coromandel and South Waikato),

• Wellington (Porirua),

• Canterbury (Christchurch).

Providers will need to:

- demonstrate their relationships and connections, and how they plan to strengthen these, with tangata whenua, local iwi/hapu, Pacific Island communities, or Ethnic communities.

- have connections with other service providers in their community and demonstrate how they will work with them to ensure the client’s individual needs are met.