Social Impact Annual Monitoring Report 2015
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Social Impact Monitoring Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility and Auckland South Corrections Facility – Kohuora Annual Monitoring Report 2015 pg. 1 Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility and Auckland South Corrections Facility – Kohuora. Social Impact Monitoring: Third Annual Report 2015. June 2016 The baseline, 2013 and 2014 reports were prepared by Dianne Buchan and Chris Cosslett of Corydon Consultants Ltd. This 2015 report is an update of those reports by Quigley and Watts Ltd, drawing on the 2015 data collected by Corydon Consultants Ltd and on the text and layout of the previous authors. Substantial additions include an analysis of data, chapter summaries and overall assessments. Consequently an Executive Summary is now presented. Finally, all reports have been undertaken in accordance with conditions of designation set by the Board of Inquiry for the construction of the Auckland South Corrections Facility (Kohuora) at Wiri. Cover design by Rev Mark Beale, Member of the Community Impact Forum Social Impact Monitoring 2015 Third Annual Report – ARWCF and ASCF Kohuora i Contents Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................... 1 ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Document deliverables for phases 1 and 2 of the Social Impact Monitoring Plan .................... 4 1.2 Contractual and report changes compared with previous years ...................................................... 4 2. Housing and accommodation ............................................................................................... 6 2.1 Rental housing ............................................................................................................................. 8 2.1.1 HNZC housing waiting lists .................................................................................................. 8 2.1.2 Private rental housing ......................................................................................................... 9 2.1.3 ASCF construction worker housing and ARWCF employee housing .................................. 10 2.1.4 Housing of prisoner families, offenders and Steps to Freedom programme ..................... 11 2.2 Overcrowding ............................................................................................................................ 13 2.3 Emergency/temporary housing ................................................................................................. 13 2.3.1 Demand for emergency accommodation .......................................................................... 13 2.3.2 Long-term residents at caravan parks ............................................................................... 14 2.4 Demand for Supported Accommodation Service...................................................................... 15 3. Schools and pre-schools ....................................................................................................... 16 3.1 Background ................................................................................................................................ 18 3.2 Number of children enrolled at schools with a caregiver employed or imprisoned at ARWCF 18 3.3 Turnover rates in school rolls .................................................................................................... 19 3.4 Special needs students .............................................................................................................. 22 3.4.1 Number of special needs students ..................................................................................... 22 3.4.2 Resource Teacher: Learning and Behaviour Unit (RTLB) ................................................... 24 3.4.3 Number of special needs of pre-school children ................................................................ 26 3.4.4 Ministry of Education’s Psychological Service for students ............................................... 27 3.5 Unjustified absence e.g. truancy ............................................................................................... 29 3.5.1 Truancy incidents ............................................................................................................... 29 3.5.2 Number of truants ............................................................................................................. 29 3.5.3 Referral to Attendance Services ........................................................................................ 30 3.6 Pre-school occupancy and enrolments ..................................................................................... 31 4. Local NGO support services ................................................................................................. 32 4.1 Background ................................................................................................................................ 32 4.2 General NGO social support services ........................................................................................ 33 4.2.1 Number of volunteers and number of hours delivered to ARWCF prisoners ..................... 33 4.2.2 Service usage of local NGOs .............................................................................................. 34 4.3 Maori cultural services .............................................................................................................. 36 4.4 Child Travel Fund or Whānau Transport ................................................................................... 37 5. Local health services ............................................................................................................. 38 5.1 Background ................................................................................................................................ 39 5.2 Services affected by prisoner health requirements .................................................................. 39 5.2.1 On-site visits by health providers....................................................................................... 39 5.2.2 Visits to off-site health providers ....................................................................................... 40 5.2.3 Mason Clinic inpatients and outpatients ........................................................................... 41 5.3 Demands on primary health clinics ........................................................................................... 42 5.3.1 Numbers of enrolled patients at each clinic ...................................................................... 42 5.3.2 Specialist services at Raukura Hauora O Tainui ................................................................ 43 5.4 Stand Children’s Services (formerly Pakuranga Health Camp) ................................................. 45 Social Impact Monitoring 2015 Third Annual Report – ARWCF and ASCF Kohuora ii 5.5 St Johns Ambulance................................................................................................................... 46 5.6 Health services provided to the Korowai Manaaki Youth Justice Facility ................................. 47 Table 34: Youth Justice Facility: onsite consultations by health service providers ....................... 47 Table 35: Youth Justice Facility: Off-site treatments (average per month) ................................... 47 6. Local employment and economy....................................................................................... 48 6.1 Employment opportunities at the Corrections facilities ........................................................... 48 6.1.1 ASCF – Kohuora construction workforce ........................................................................... 48 6.2 Employment and training opportunities for ARWCF prisoners ................................................ 50 6.3 Demand for local goods and services ........................................................................................ 51 7. Community safety and wellbeing ..................................................................................... 52 7.1 Background ................................................................................................................................ 53 7.2 Crime rates ................................................................................................................................ 53 7.3 Domestic violence ..................................................................................................................... 54 7.4 Graffiti and vandalism ............................................................................................................... 55 7.5 Gang presence in the local community ..................................................................................... 55 7.6 Probation services, probation compliance and rehabilitation services .................................... 57 7.6.1 Probation services ............................................................................................................. 57 7.6.2 Community Probation Compliance .................................................................................... 58 7.6.3 Rehabilitation services