Anne Shaw – Deputy Chief Executive, Disability Support Services

Role and responsibilities

Anne leads our Disability Support Services group (DSS), which is responsible for the commissioning, funding and stewardship of high-quality disability support services. 

DSS funding supports more than 50,000 disabled people and their whānau each day. It also provides equipment and modification services for approximately 100,000 New Zealanders, and specialist Child Development Services (CDS) for around 20,000 disabled children to help them reach developmental milestones. 

DSS is working to stabilise and strengthen the disability support system so that it is more fair, consistent, transparent and sustainable.  

DSS staff are located in Auckland, Waikato, Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, including in the regional Enabling Good Lives sites. 

About Anne

Anne joined DSS in 2024 to lead the team delivering DSS-funded services to disabled people, their whānau and carers.

She spent the last decade on executive leadership teams at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She’s worked closely with MSD on emergency and public housing.

At HUD, Anne was responsible for contracting more than $2 billion funding for public and transitional housing delivery and housing support programmes, including Housing First.