The Election Access Fund is money the government can provide to support disabled people to stand as candidates in different kinds of elections.


This Easy Read document will tell you more about:

This document also talks about how to have your say about the Election Access Fund using a survey. This survey has now closed which means the Electoral Commision is not accepting any more information about what people think. 

This is about support for disabled people to stand as candidates in parliamentary general elections and by-elections

 Election Access Fund: What it is and how to have your say

This Easy Read document is about disability funding from the government.

This Easy Read document talks about things like:

This Easy Read guide tells you how you can use disability funding from Whaikaha.


A guide for how you can use  disability funding

New Zealand and other countries have agreed to follow the United Nations' rules about what rights children have.

A new agreement on the Convention on the Rights of the Child

This is about a Government plan to stop family and sexual violence called Te Aorerekura.

A plan to end family violence and sexual violence

This is about ASB FastNet Classic internet banking which is when you do banking with ASB using the internet.

ASB: Using FastNet Classic internet banking

This is about the ASB mobile app that you can use to do banking on your phone, iPad or tablet.

ASB: Using the ASB Mobile Banking app

The Accessibility Charter is about what the Government will do to respect the rights of disabled people in  New Zealand. What is written in the charter makes sure the Government does what it needs to do under the UNCRPD.

What the Government is doing  to respect disability rights

Accessibility Charter

The Disability Action Plan says what work needs to be done to make the New Zealand Disability Strategy happen.

Disability Action Plan 2019 - 2023

This is about how Employment Support services can support disabled people to get into paid work. 

Employment Support Service Practice Guidelines

This is about the Enabling Good Lives (EGL) vision and principles which are the things that guide how EGL works.

Enabling Good Lives: Vision and Principles

Enabling Good Lives is about having choice and control in your life, and the support you want and need. This Easy Read talks about the Enabling Good Lives ideas.

Enabling Good Lives is about having choice and control in your life, and the support you want and need.

This paper is an EasyRead guide to an extra agreement for the International Agreement on the Rights of Disabled People.

Extra Agreement under the International Agreement on the Rights of Disabled People

This tells you things about the flu vaccine, like how to get one and what might happen after getting it.

Getting a flu vaccine

Sometimes people can get help from the Ministry of Social Development to help pay the dentist.

Getting support to pay for the dentist

This Easy Read document is about how to make and send a petition to Parliament asking the New Zealand Government to do something. 

Guide about how to send a petition to Parliament

This guide tells you what Supported Decision Making is and how someone can support you in making choices.

Guide to Supported Decision Making

This is about how to fill out your Health Passport. Your Health Passport can tell health services about you.

Guide to filling out your Health Passport

This is the Easy Read Health Passport for you to fill out to take to any health appointments.

Health Passport Form

This is about a report by the HRC into emergency housing in NZ. It is part of the HRC looking into housing rights in NZ

Housing Inquiry:  Homelessness and human rights

This tells you about how ideas politicians have called bills become laws in New Zealand

How a bill becomes law in New Zealand

This is about telling someone about your disability support services like:
- making a complaint
- saying what you think.

How to make a complaint and give feedback about your disability support services

This is about how to tell a select committee what you think by making a submission.

How to make a submission to a select committee

Zoom is an app used to make video calls This tells you how to use Zoom on a computer or laptop.

How to use Zoom on a computer or laptop

Zoom is an app used to make video calls This tells you how to use Zoom on a phone or tablet.

How to use Zoom on a phone or tablet

This is a form for when you get a job. It tells you and your boss what you have agreed to. 

Individual Employment Agreement

This talks about what it means to stand for election.

Information about becoming a candidate in an election

This is about getting a medicine called a vaccine when you are pregnant. Vaccines keep you safe from some diseases.

Information about getting a vaccine during pregnancy

This Easy Read document is about how schools:
•	make plans
•	report on the plans that were made.  


Information about how schools make plans and reports

Information about the  Code of Conduct for  State School Board Members

This is about the New Zealand Traveller Declaration. (NZDT) Everyone who comes to NZ needs to complete an NZDT.

Information about the  New Zealand Traveller Declaration form

People can use MyMSD on the internet to easily and quickly access help and provide information to MSD 

Keep in touch with MyMSD

This is about the Learning Support Action Plan 2019 – 2025. This says what MoE has to do to reach their goals.

Learning Support Action Plan 2019 to 2025 summary and feedback

This summary is about how disabled students have found studying in New Zealand and accessing education and services.

Let’s Get Accessible: How disabled student feel about tertiary education

This Easy Read document is about looking after how you might be feeling after a natural disaster like an earthquake.

Looking after how you are feeling after a natural disaster

If something bad happens to you because you have a disability you might be able to make a complaint to the UN 

Making complaints to the United Nations Disability Committee

The NZ Disability Strategy is a document the government uses to make sure they are meeting the needs of disabled people

New Zealand Disability Strategy 2016 – 2026

This is a form for you to fill out to say:
-who you want to support you
-what sort of support you need.


People First - Supported Decision making - How I make my decisions form

Enduring power of attorney is a plan for how you will be kept safe and looked after if something bad happens to you

Protect your future with an Enduring Power of Attorney

This is about reasonable accommodation which means making changes so disabled people can do more things.

Removing barriers:  A guide about reasonable accommodation for disabled people

Investigation into the information about people with learning disabilities who
died in MOH residential support services

Report: Off the Record

This is about a review of the Total Mobility scheme which makes it easier for disabled people to get places.

Review of the Total Mobility scheme

This document is about what the Government is doing to make education better for Pacific people in New Zealand.

Summary: Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020 to 2030

Summary of the report Conversion practices in Aotearoa New Zealand: Developing a holistic response to spiritual abuse.

Summary: Conversion Practices research

Support for tertiary education learners who are disabled, neurodiverse or need learning support

This document tells you about what supports are available for tertiary students who:

-are neurodivergent like people with ADHD or Autism

-need extra learning support for any reason.

What support is available for tertiary education students if you are disabled, neurodivergent or need learning support

Support for tertiary education learners

A select committee is a group made by the government to learn about something. This tells you about talking to one.

Talking to a select committee

This is about a Government plan to make New Zealand better for the wellbeing of Children and Youth

The Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy

A guide on how to write a will. A will says what you want to happen to the things you own and your body after you die. 

All Easy Read resources

Election Access Fund: What it is and how to have your sayJune 30, 2022

A guide for how you can use disability fundingAugust 1, 2023

A new agreement on the Convention on the Rights of the ChildApril 1, 2023

A plan to end family violence and sexual violenceDecember 1, 2021

ASB: Using FastNet Classic internet bankingJuly 21, 2023

ASB: Using the ASB Mobile Banking appJuly 21, 2023

Accessibility CharterSeptember 1, 2021

Disability Action Plan 2019 - 2023December 31, 2018

Employment Support Service Practice GuidelinesJanuary 1, 2018

Enabling Good Lives: Vision and PrinciplesSeptember 1, 2018

Enabling Good Lives: Vision and PrinciplesOctober 29, 2023

Extra Agreement under the International Agreement on the Rights of Disabled PeopleDecember 1, 2007

Getting a flu vaccineMay 3, 2022

Getting support to pay for the dentistMay 1, 2023

Guide about how to send a petition to ParliamentJune 1, 2022

Guide to Supported Decision MakingJune 14, 2020

Guide to filling out your Health PassportNovember 23, 2023

Health Passport FormNovember 22, 2023

Housing Inquiry: Homelessness and human rightsSeptember 1, 2023

How a bill becomes law in New ZealandMay 31, 2022