Who we are

South Auckland Social Wellbeing Board

The South Auckland Social Wellbeing Board is an agency-led Place-Based Initiative (PBI) consisting of representation from 13 Government agencies, including local government, District Health Board and an independent non-government chair. Since its inception, the SASWB has focused on developing new, cross-agency ways of working to meet complex and diverse needs of whānau. Through trialling whānau-centred, cross-agency ways of working, the PBI is identifying system improvements to create improved outcomes for whānau.

The beginning

The SASWB was set up by Cabinet along with two other PBI’s in 2016. Originally named the South Auckland Social Investment Board (SIB), the establishment of the PBI was underpinned by social investment principles. Change is a feature of the PBI space and consequently the PBI has had to adapt to local conditions and changing government priorities. As such, the PBI has transitioned to the South Auckland Social Wellbeing Board to focus on developing new, cross-agency ways of working to meet the requirements of whānau with complex multi-generational needs.

Where it all started... a combination of:

  • Bottom up South Auckland advocacy for improved effectiveness of public expenditure for same or similar cohorts of vulnerable groups.

  • Top-down policy-led recognition of the power of analytics, to drive targeted local investments and decision making.

 

Why start this journey

  • “Sam’s story” underpinned the purpose of the Board and the benefits of working better together. Click here to read Sam’s Story. 

  • We recognised that we were missing opportunities to do better for our tamariki, where we weren’t working together effectively to be able to act earlier in their life journey

  • There were disconnects at the front-line of our agencies which impacted on our ability to make sustainable, long term change for tamariki and whānau

  • We needed to collectively move our system to a new way of working to extract more value for our community

  • The Board worked collectively to define a Place-Based-Initiative. Click here to explore the board’s definition.

  • Our logic model was based on the CDC Technical Package for preventing child abuse and neglect and enabled us to confirm our initial intervention settings identified through analysis of cross agency data (click onto logic model)