The State Sector Act 1988 was part of a suite of reforms intended to shift the focus of NZ’s social welfare policy from inputs to outputs and outcomes (social investment).[i] The Act made chief executives of government agencies responsible for delivering services within budgets and rather than being based on the needs of those they served.[ii]
Footnotes
- [i] go to main content Jonathan Boston, 1993. "Reshaping social policy in New Zealand," Fiscal Studies, 14, 3, 1993, pp. 64-85, p. 74.
- [ii] go to main content Michael Belgrave, ‘Needs and the State: Evolving Social Policy in New Zealand History’, in Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, eds., Past Judgement, Dunedin, 2004, pp. 37–38.; Wai 414, p. 131.