Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report
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Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility and Men’s Corrections Facility Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report – ARWCF and MCF ii Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility and Men’s Corrections Facility Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report February 2013 Cover design by Rev Mark Beale, member of the Community Impact Forum Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report – ARWCF and MCF iii This report has been prepared by Corydon Consultants Ltd for the Community Impact Forum in accordance with conditions of designation set by the Board of Inquiry for the construction of a Men’s Corrections Facility at Wiri. Our thanks to the large number of individuals, groups, organisations, services, government agencies and private businesses who gave so willingly of their time to discuss their concerns, share their knowledge, assist in the identification and refinement of indicators, collect data and in other ways contributed to the compilation of this baseline report. Without this input, the Social Impact Monitoring project would not be possible. Dianne Buchan, Corydon Consultants Ltd Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report – ARWCF and MCF iv Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 1.1. Board of Inquiry decision........................................................................................... 1 1.2. Baseline Report ......................................................................................................... 1 1.3. Identifying indicators of social change ...................................................................... 2 1.4. Attribution – have the changes identified been caused by the facilities? ................ 2 1.5. Monitoring and assessment framework ................................................................... 2 1.6. Boundaries of the monitoring areas .......................................................................... 3 1.7. The impact management process ............................................................................. 3 1.8. The social impact monitoring and reporting process ................................................ 3 2. Housing and accommodation ............................................................................................ 5 2.1 Rental housing ........................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Overcrowding ............................................................................................................ 8 2.3 Emergency and temporary housing demand ............................................................ 9 3. Schools and pre-schools .................................................................................................. 12 3.1 Schools ..................................................................................................................... 12 3.2 Pre-schools .............................................................................................................. 12 3.3 Turnover rates in school rolls .................................................................................. 13 3.4 High needs students ................................................................................................ 14 3.5 Truancy (unjustified absence) levels ....................................................................... 17 3.6 Pre-school waiting lists ............................................................................................ 18 4. Local support services ..................................................................................................... 20 4.1 Demand for NGO social support services ................................................................ 21 4.2 NGO capacity to meet prisoner needs .................................................................... 23 4.3 Child Travel Fund /Whānau Transport (PARS) ........................................................ 24 5. Local health services ........................................................................................................ 26 5.1 Prisoner health requirements ................................................................................. 27 5.2 Local health service providers ................................................................................. 29 5.3 St John Ambulance .................................................................................................. 31 5.4 Youth Justice Facility ............................................................................................... 32 6. Local employment and economy .................................................................................... 34 6.1 Employment opportunities at Corrections Facilities ............................................... 34 6.2 Employment opportunities for ARWCF prisoners and STS ..................................... 35 6.3 Demand for local goods and services ...................................................................... 36 7. Community safety and wellbeing .................................................................................... 38 7.1 Crime Rates.............................................................................................................. 38 Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report – ARWCF and MCF v 7.2 Graffiti and vandalism ............................................................................................. 39 7.3 Intimidation and domestic violence ........................................................................ 40 7.4 Gang presence in local community ......................................................................... 41 7.5 Probation and rehabilitation ................................................................................... 42 7.6 Workload for local police ........................................................................................ 44 7.7 Poverty levels .......................................................................................................... 45 7.8 Community pride ..................................................................................................... 45 7.9 Local community facilities ....................................................................................... 51 8. Tangata Whenua ............................................................................................................. 53 8.1 Iwi / Hapū .............................................................................................................. 53 8.2 Culture .................................................................................................................... 53 8.3 Natural environment and ability to exercise kaitiakitanga ..................................... 53 8.4 Local Iwi / Hapū identity and on cultural awareness generally ............................. 54 8.5 Monitoring results ................................................................................................... 54 9. Traffic and transport ........................................................................................................ 55 9.1 Monitoring results ................................................................................................... 55 Appendices .............................................................................................................................. 57 Appendix 1 – Location map of SIMP “local area” and “wider area” ................................... 58 Appendix 3 - Methodology used for the collection of data ................................................ 67 Appendix 4 - Findings of the Youth Survey ......................................................................... 71 Social Impact Monitoring Baseline Report – ARWCF and MCF vi 1. Introduction 1.1. Board of Inquiry decision This Social Impact Baseline Report is the first report in what is expected to be a series of annual reports which document the social changes happening in the Manurewa and wider community that could be a result of the existence of two Corrections facilities. The Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility (ARWCF) and the Men’s Corrections Facility (MCF), currently under construction, are adjacent to each other in the suburb of Wiri. The report has been prepared under the Social Impact Monitoring Plan (SIMP) which is one of the conditions of designation set by the BOI for the construction of the MCF. The SIMP is one of a suite of impact-monitoring procedures required to be undertaken by the Department of Corrections as part of the designation conditions. The other monitoring requirements cover noise levels from the construction activities (condition 28), Volatile Organic Compounds in relation to ARWCF (condition 30), field odour (condition 32), and the effectiveness of the travel demand management (TDM) plan developed for the operations phase of the two Corrections facilities (condition 91 (c)). An extract of the relevant conditions is attached as Appendix 1. The purpose of the SIMP is to identify, quantify and assess the social and cultural effects (both positive and negative) that might arise as a result of either the MCF or the ARWCF or a combination of both being located in close proximity to a residential area. 1.2. Baseline Report In compliance with the BOI decision, the results of the social impact monitoring programme are to be reported on an annual basis. This first report sets out