Statement of Intent 2005 - Purpose and Scope
This Statement of Intent has two key components:
- Strategic Directions - this part describes the social development outcomes we want to achieve for all New Zealanders. It also describes our outputs, or the work we will do to contribute to these outcomes.
- Financial Forecasts, Forecast Output Performance Statements and Statement of Responsibility - this part provides an overview of our finances for the year and specifies the measures and standards against which our performance will be assessed.
An evolving process
Each Statement of Intent reflects the fact that Managing for Outcomes is an evolving process. Our 2003 Statement of Intent described the five high-level outcomes we seek to achieve for different population groups: children and young people, working age people, older people, families and whanau, and communities, hapu and iwi.
For our 2004 Statement of Intent, we added a strategic aim to our outcome framework to reflect our social development leadership work. We also added a series of contributing outcomes for our strategic aim and each high-level outcome.
This year we have made some adjustments to our outcome framework to better align our outcomes with the work that we do. The key changes have been to:
- align our outcomes for children and young people with the outcomes in the Government’s Sustainable Development for New Zealand Programme of Action - Investing in Child and Youth Development
- revise our contributing outcomes for Families and Whanau to align them with the Family and Community Services National Advisory Council’s outcomes.
We have also conducted a thorough review of our outcome indicators. Where possible, we have made changes so that the indicators we use are consistent with OECD standards and other recognised indicator reports such as The Social Report.
Over the coming year, we will work on redesigning our output expense structure to better align our outputs and outcomes. This work will also involve reviewing our current performance measures and developing appropriate measures that provide a strong indication of the results we are achieving.
