Market Stewardship Actions for the NDIS: New Report
In this report the CSI draw together the international literature on effective quasi-market interventions for managing market failures and gaps.
Resources
A National Guideline for the Assessment and Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia
This guideline aims to create greater consistency in diagnostic practices across the country to ensure individuals on the autism spectrum and their families can receive the optimal clinical care. The Guideline emphasises the importance of listening to individuals and their families about the impact of the behaviours on family life.
Empowering people with disabilities, without exploiting support workers
In this lecture Professor Tom Shakespeare – a leading disability expert in the UK and Europe, talks about how new models of social care can facilitate greater flexibility and freedom and empower people with disability, while also present new risks to workers, as support work becomes increasingly insecure.
Psychosocial Disability Stream Added to NDIS
The mental health sector is celebrating the announcement of a psychosocial stream for the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
National Disability Insurance Scheme: Psychosocial Disability Pathway
This is a report on a series of consultation workshops with stakeholders to hear how NDIS participants with psychosocial disability, their carers and providers experience the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
NDIS Sector Development Podcast
A Podcast for Disability Service Providers transitioning to the NDIS.
The NDIS is delivering ‘reasonable and necessary’ supports for some, but others are missing out
There were several reasons participants gave low scores. These included having inadequate funding to meet their needs, planners not understanding their disability, planners producing inconsistent plans, and a lack of transparency as to how decisions were made. These findings support concerns expressed in the sector that staff implementing the NDIS don’t have the necessary skills, training, experience, and resources (including time) to assess reasonable and necessary supports.
The Illusion of ‘choice and control’: The difficulties for people with complex and challenging support needs to obtain adequate supports under the NDIS
The human impact and harm experienced by clients when they receive inadequate supports under the NDIS is significant and the costs to them for this failure, have been enormous. As the client stories in the report demonstrate, people in this cohort experience many challenges in obtaining adequate supports under the NDIS. This report makes fifteen recommendations to improve system, service and operational issues to ensure the scheme delivers the intended transformational benefits for all people with disability.
Choice and control at risk for NDIS participants
Choice and control for National Disability Insurance Scheme participants is at risk due to critical workforce shortages and inadequate market supervision, a parliamentary committee says.
Market stewardship: goals, roles aren’t enough — what interventions can officials make?
As a new oversight report draws attention to the market stewardship of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. To prevent market failure we need actions, not just principles. Without robust service delivery markets, the NDIS will fail to meet its goals of choice and control for people with a disability.
NDIS Participant Booklets
Three participant booklets are available to support people with disability and participants throughout their NDIS journey. They are available for download in PDF, Word and Easy English and include Booklet 1 – Understanding the NDIS, Booklet 2 – Planning and Booklet 3 – Using your NDIS Plan
Report: Market readiness for provision of services under the NDIS
The challenges for both participants and service providers to transition to a market-led service delivery model cannot be underestimated. Creating a participant enabling environment and developing a competitive marketplace is vital to the success of the Scheme. However, during the course of this inquiry, the committee heard that the NDIA, as the lead market steward, … Continued
Outrage after woman with profound disabilities told to pay back NDIS funds
A supreme court judge has issued a stunning public condemnation of the National Disability Insurance Agency, finding it tried to recoup funds with “no proper basis” from a woman with profound disabilities, and then came dangerously close to contempt of court.
Life in limbo: NDIS delays force husband and wife to live apart
The funding request for the equipment Alysia needs – which includes a hoist, a hospital-style bed and crucial modifications to her electric wheelchair – was lodged in March 2017, and has already been approved by the National Disability Insurance Agency. But the labyrinthine bureaucracy involved in getting new equipment – including a mind-boggling seven-step approval process – means Alysia has still not received it, despite the funding approval.
Concerns raised over NDIS barriers for homeless people with disability
There are calls for greater National Disability Insurance Scheme accessibility for disadvantaged groups, with an expert warning it is “nearly impossible” for homeless people with disability to get help from the system.