As an exercise in social reform, grassroots campaigning, and organizing techniques, NDIS has been a salutory experience in how not to reform social policy and service delivery. The supreme irony is that innovative person-centred practice had been undertaken quietly and selectively in various parts of Australia from the mid-1980s with negligible cost to the taxpayers, which state and federal governments could have championed and replicated if they wished.
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- NDIS
- Author:
- Vern Hughes
- Source:
- Online Opinion
- Date published:
- Fri 4th Dec, 2015