Private disability support service provider funding checks and measures
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From: Jon Molyneux
Dear Ministry of Health,
What measures do you have in place to ensure that Ministry of Health funding is being used for the intended disability support services and private firms/providers are not taking excessive funds out of those contracts?
Do you have limits (% or other) on profits that can be made under contracts/outcome agreements with private disability support service providers? If not, why not?
Do you have limits (% or other) under contracts/outcome agreements with private disability support service providers that can be allocated as overhead costs? If not, why not?
Do you have any measures or limits around funding allocations (% or other) under contracts/outcome agreements with private disability support service providers? If not, why not?
Has the Ministry received or prepared advice in the past 2 years regarding the inclusion of any of the above limits or measures (or similar) in disability support service contracts/outcome agreements? Please provide a copy of any advice.
Yours faithfully,
Jon Molyneux
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Kia ora Jon,
Thank you for your request for official information received on 20 August
2021 for:
"What measures do you have in place to ensure that Ministry of Health
funding is being used for the intended disability support services and
private firms/providers are not taking excessive funds out of those
contracts?
Do you have limits (% or other) on profits that can be made under
contracts/outcome agreements with private disability support service
providers? If not, why not?
Do you have limits (% or other) under contracts/outcome agreements with
private disability support service providers that can be allocated as
overhead costs? If not, why not?
Do you have any measures or limits around funding allocations (% or other)
under contracts/outcome agreements with private disability support service
providers? If not, why not?
Has the Ministry received or prepared advice in the past 2 years regarding
the inclusion of any of the above limits or measures (or similar) in
disability support service contracts/outcome agreements? Please provide a
copy of any advice.”
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