Māori and the Out of School Services Sector
Appendix 5
Questions for parents and caregivers (whānau care)- Individual interviews and focus groups
Parent and caregiver priorities for out of school services and care (including school-holiday programmes)
- What are the ages of the children and how many go to whānau care after school?
- When thinking about out of school services and care for your children, what were/ are the things that are important to you when you made/are making decisions about these services after school? Why are they important to you?
Participants take their key factors and rate them on a chart in order of priority for them.. For example, if COST is a key factor:
How important is cost a priority for you when thinking about out of school services for your children?
- Extremely important it is the critical priority factor
- Very important as one of a number of other priority factors
- Important but not a priority factor
Out of school services and care
- What kind of care have you chosen for your children?
- Are you satisfied with the care that you get?
- What are your reasons for choosing whānau care? Did you have a choice? If you had a choice would you prefer a service provider?
- How does your whānau care meet your needs? Are there any gaps/improvements needed?
- What are the challenges that you have experienced in getting out of school services or care? For example,
- What are specific challenges that you have experienced in accessing these in rural or urban settings?
- What are specific challenges that you have experienced in getting these for primary and secondary school age children?
- What are specific challenges that you have experienced in accessing these for children with special or high needs?
Specific questions for school-holiday programmes
- What happens to your children during school holidays?
- What are the key factors when deciding on a school holiday programme for your children? Are they the same as after school care? If different, what are they and why?
OSCAR subsidies
- What do you know about OSCAR subsidies for out of school services?
- Do you know the criteria for getting these subsidies? What are they?
- If you had known about it, would it have made a difference for you with your choice of care after school?
- Are there any improvements you can suggest are needed to the subsidy?
Activities
- What do your children do when they get to the whānau carer? Have you any expectations for activities?
- Do they do anything that is Māori specific after school? Have you any expectations for Māori specific activities or Māori content during this time?
- What do you want most from whānau care? Do you see t as a babysitting service or something else? Describe the something else?