TY  - BOOK
ED  - New Zealand. Office of the Children's Commissioner
ED  - Oranga Tamariki, Ministry for Children
TI  - What makes a good life for disabled children and young people? : : A summary report in the What makes a good life? Children and young people’s views on wellbeing series
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Wellington, New Zealand : 
PB  - Office of the Children's Commissioner, 
KW  - Child Wellbeing Unit, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
KW  - Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy
KW  - CHILDREN
KW  - CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
KW  - VOICES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
KW  - DISABLED PEOPLE
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - FAMILIES
KW  - SAFETY
KW  - SURVEYS
KW  - WELLBEING
KW  - YOUNG PEOPLE
KW  - ORA
KW  - TAITAMARIKI
KW  - TĀNGATA WHAIKAHA
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - This report was a collaboration between the Office of the Children’s Commissioner and Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children, supported by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
N2  - WHAT MAKES  
A GOOD LIFE FOR  
DISABLED CHILDREN 
AND YOUNG PEOPLE? 
A summary report in the What Makes a Good 
Life?: Children and Young People’s views on 
wellbeing series. Published by the Office of the 
Children’s Commissioner, September 2021.
Read the full What Makes a Good Life? 
report on our website
In October and November 2018, the Office 
of the Children’s Commissioner’s Mai World 
team and the Oranga Tamariki Voices of 
Children and Young People team, engaged 
with more than 6,000 children and young 
people, for the What Makes a Good Life? 
report. In total, 423 children and young 
people were engaged face-to-face and  
5,631 participated via a survey run through 
schools, community groups and available 
publicly online.
As part of What Makes a Good Life? we heard from 
474 disabled children and young people about how 
they envisage a good life, and the barriers they face in 
experiencing this. A total of 23 disabled children and 
young people were interviewed face-to-face and 451 via 
the online survey. We also heard from the whānau of one 
disabled young person as the young person themselves 
was non-verbal, but present for the conversation. 
We mainly heard from disabled young people aged 
14-19 and some children aged between 9 and 13.1 These 
children and young people were from Wellington, the 
Hutt Valley, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The ethnicities of 
those we spoke to included Māori, Indian and Pākehā/ 
New Zealand European.
This summary report presents some of the key messages 
we heard from disabled children and young people. 
It is important to note however, that this report is not 
representative of disability communities as the young 
people participated as a part of the wider engagement.
What Makes a Good Life? informed the Child and Youth 
Wellbeing Strategy, released August 2019. We hope this 
summary report can inform people’s understandings of 
what disabled children and young people experience and 
that this understanding is reflected in the development of 
policy, practice and service delivery. (From the report). Record #7307
UR  - https://www.manamokopuna.org.nz/publications/reports/disabled-children-young-people-summary-report/
UR  - https://www.manamokopuna.org.nz/publications/reports/what-makes-a-good-life/
ER  -