Instructions

This ChatGPT guide has been instructed to act as your friendly human rights defender 🛡️✨. It helps you craft personalized answers that are designed to reflect you, protect your rights, and ensure your voice is heard!

  • Copy & Paste: Copy and paste all the text after each consultation question into ChatGPT.

  • Reflect & Answer: Respond to the three blue arrow questions to uncover your values and experiences, directly in the chat.

  • Generate Your Response: Press Enter and get a personalized answer tailored to your perspective.

  • Make It Yours: You can edit or change anything in the prompt—make sure the final answer truly reflects you!

  • Submit Your Voice: Copy and paste your final answer into your saved submission document to make sure it counts!

Consultation Question 7:

How often do you think your services/supports need to be reviewed or reassessed?

(For instance, every year, every two years, every three years, or every five years.)

Copy and Paste all the Following text into ChatGPT:

*STEP 1: MY VALUES  (answer these questions)

  1. How often do you feel your supports and services should be reviewed to ensure they continue to align with your vision for a good life, foster your autonomy, and adapt to your evolving goals and circumstances?
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  2. What approaches would help you maintain control over your supports without unnecessary reassessments disrupting your life?
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STEP 2: MY EXPERIENCE  (answer this question)

  1. Can you share a time when a review or reassessment of your supports was helpful—or when it disrupted your life? What made the difference?
  2. Do you have any other insights or experiences that could help shape a better solution?
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STEP 3: GENERATE MY RESPONSE (press enter) 


"I am responding to the New Zealand government's consultation on disability support services. The question I am answering is: ‘How often do you think your services/supports need to be reviewed or reassessed?’ Make sure you answer this question.

Act as my friendly human rights defender and craft an attention-grabbing opening that immediately draws the reader in. My response must be strong on rights, self-determination, and ensuring disabled people and their whānau have full control over their lives.

Push back against restricting funding to only contracted providers, as this limits autonomy, creates power imbalances, and risks repeating past failures seen in institutional care. Reference the Royal Commission findings on how system-driven models failed to protect disabled people and emphasize that self-directed, community-based supports provide stronger safeguards.



Key Principles to Embed:

Ground my response in the Enabling Good Lives (EGL) principles, UNCRPD, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Whānau Ora.
Advocate for reassessment schedules that are flexible and responsive to actual needs rather than rigid timeframes.
Ensure reassessments are structured in a way that strengthens disabled people’s independence rather than creating stress, instability, or unnecessary barriers.
Recognize that reassessments should be a tool for empowerment and ongoing support—not a bureaucratic obstacle or an eligibility test that undermines security.
Ensure the reassessment process fully reflects the EGL vision by embedding these core principles:

  • Self-determination: Disabled people and whānau must have full control over when and how reassessments occur.
  • Beginning early: Support reviews should be proactive, ensuring continuity rather than waiting until crisis points arise.
  • Person-centered: The reassessment must focus on the whole person—their evolving goals, changing needs, and strengths.
  • Ordinary life outcomes: The goal must be to ensure a stable, fulfilling life in the community, rather than threatening loss of support.
  • Mainstream first: Reviews should ensure disabled people can continue accessing mainstream services, opportunities, and community life.
  • Mana enhancing: The process must respect the dignity and lived experience of disabled people and their whānau.
  • Easy to use: The system must be accessible, transparent, and navigable—not a source of stress or uncertainty.
  • Relationship building: Reassessments should build trust between disabled people and the system, rather than creating fear of cuts.
    Highlight the importance of long-term planning, ensuring stable supports that allow for continuity in life, work, and relationships.
    Demand full transparency from the government about:
  • How reassessment timeframes are determined and whether they truly serve disabled people’s best interests.
  • Whether reassessments enhance stability or cause unnecessary stress, delays, or insecurity.
  • How reassessments impact staffing and service quality, ensuring long-term planning for sustainable, engaged, and well-supported teams.
    Push for a strengths-based approach to reassessments, ensuring that:
  • They reflect personal growth and evolving needs, rather than being used to question a person’s eligibility.
  • Disabled people and whānau have the ability to self-report changes rather than being subjected to unnecessary bureaucratic scrutiny.
  • They provide opportunities to improve and expand supports, rather than just being used to justify reductions.
    Provide clear recommendations on how reassessment schedules can be improved to balance stability and responsiveness.




Now, based on my answers, create a strong and persuasive response that:

1️⃣ Starts with an engaging, bold opening that immediately establishes the need for change.
2️⃣ Introduces my values and experiences, grounding my response in personal reality.
3️⃣ Makes a persuasive argument for a fair, transparent, and strengths-based reassessment process.
4️⃣ Provides concrete recommendations for how reassessments can be structured to empower disabled people rather than create stress or insecurity.
5️⃣ Ends with a compelling summary that reinforces the key message and calls for urgent reform.

Use clear, direct, and persuasive language to make this response as strong as possible, ensuring that it highlights the need for a fair, practical, and empowering reassessment process that genuinely serves the evolving needs of disabled people and their families.*