Testing Changes to the Growth and Wellbeing Schedule
April 2026
Tamariki Wellbeing
This report explores what was learnt when six Well Child Tamariki Ora providers tested targeted changes to the Growth and Wellbeing Schedule with the aim of making the service more responsive, equitable and whānau-centred.
This report is the first of four learning reports from a collaboration between Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, community based providers and TSI’s Tamariki Wellbeing Team to prototype changes to the WCTO service.
Using Niho Taniwha, the prototype created a live learning approach that gathered insights from practice on the ground and brought people together from across the system to make sense of what was being learned. This provided an opportunity to work collectively to understand the extent to which the proposed changes supported responsive, holistic, culturally grounded, and whānau-centred practice, and to identify implications for funding, commissioning, workforce, and governance.
You can find more information on this prototype and links to the three other reports here.
