Information for providers

• Ensuring disabled people in residential care continue to get the services and supports they need is our top priority.  DSS will work with providers, NASCs and Enabling Good Lives sites to support them to transition to this new model.
• The new pricing model has been in place since 1 July 2025. New contracts and system changes to administer the pricing model will come into effect on 1 December 2025.
• This model will require a shift in the approach to how DSS, NASCs, Enabling Good Lives sites and providers work together to allocate funding.
• DSS will work individually with providers to support this transition as part of the contracting process.

Cabinet papers

• Find out about the approach to develop the new pricing model in the December 2024 Cabinet paper external external
• Decisions on the implementation of the new pricing model in the March 2025 Cabinet paper: Stabilising Disability Support Services-Funded Residential Care - Ministry of Social Development external external

Factsheets

• Factsheet: Community Group Home Pricing Model external
• Factsheet: Funding freeze on residential care lifted on 1 July 2025 external
• Factsheet: Global Pricing Tool (GPT). The GPT is an important component of the Community Group Home Pricing Model, this document provides an overview of the GPT and includes the Final Banded Rates.

Information sessions for providers

In June 2025 DSS hosted webinars for providers, NASCs and Enabling Good Lives sites so they could find out more about the new pricing model and procurement process.

• View the videos and other material from these webinars external.

Request for Application

In June 2025 DSS released a Request for Application (RFA) to join a Residential Services Panel Agreement for the provision of Community Residential Services external.

On 3 July DSS hosted an Industry Briefing for providers external. This webinar covered the Request for Application process.