Ms Allison Franklin, of Christchurch, MNZM for services to people with disabilities
Allison Franklin has been a long-term advocate for the disabled community. She has regularly spoken to schools and community groups about disability awareness and represented the disabled community through the Cerebral Palsy Society of New Zealand’s Executive Board, Christchurch City Council’s Disability Advisory Group and the Christchurch Community House Trust. As a Member of Meridian Energy Christchurch’s Consumer Advisory Panel, her interventions led the company to collaborate with the Deaf Association to develop a protocol enabling hearing-impaired clients to access services through third parties without breaching provisions of the Privacy Act. Ms Franklin was the National Vice President of the Disabled Persons Assembly.