Social protection measures and employment services in New Zealand

This chapter evaluates policies and programmes aimed at improving the responsiveness of New Zealand’s social protection system and employment services to people with mental health conditions. It considers how this system ensures secure income in periods of inactivity, how it recognises and responds to people with mental health conditions and how the system helps people out of work to return to the labour market. The analysis uses the OECD's (2015) Council Recommendation on Integrated Mental Health, Skills and Work Policy as the primary benchmark for informing best practice policies in this field.