A New Era in the Right to Sign d increasing opportunities for deaf children and children with That DHBs: 6 consider a sub-regional pilot that communication difficulties to would pool existing budgets for NZSL interact with signing peers and interpreting services and trial working fluent NZSL users with a single booking agency to provide e reviewing and further developing NZSL curriculum resources. That District Health Boards: 3 prioritise training in disability awareness, NZSL, deaf culture and human rights for health care early these services. That government agencies: 7 explore the option of allocating current expenditure on NZSL interpreting services to an external booking service that has experience working with deaf people. intervention staff, including audiologists, That the Ministry of Health: ear, nose and throat specialists, and 8 continues to monitor the scope, uptake other specialists working with children with communication difficulties. and value of its contract with Deaf Aotearoa and explores options for Deaf Aotearoa to report on requests B Access to NZSL for NZSL interpreters that fall outside That government agencies and DHBs: within the current level of funding. 4 develop and/or review their NZSL That the Ministry of Social Development: interpreting and translation policies, including through close consultation with the deaf community, monitor their effectiveness and share good practice models of providing access to NZSL interpreting and translation services 5 allocate sufficient funds to meet current demand for NZSL interpreter and translation services and explore options to monitor demand for, supply of and expenditure on these services (including associated travel costs and for deafblind, deaf relay and trilingual interpreting). the contract’s criteria or cannot be met 9 reviews Job Support funding including the adequacy of the yearly limit, ways to reduce the administrative burden on deaf people and the feasibility of contingency funding for situations where a person needs additional support (including access to NZSL services) to undertake their paid job 10 explores how the Training Support fund could better meet the additional costs incurred by deaf people when undertaking education or training necessary to gain employment in the open labour market. 15