Inquiry into Implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the Provision of Disability Services in New South Wales
Name: Name suppressed Date Received: 2 August 2018
Partially Confidential
NDIS Federal Scheme
The NDIS federal scheme to provide comprehensive and satisfactory services to people with a wider range of disabilities is a total failure. It is quixotic to have educated people on this complexity of knowledge. Just consider the differences of physical disabilities from intellectual and mental health, congenital and acquired disabilities, distinguishing the impacts on people’s lives, recognizing their needs, awareness where goals can be achieved and where there is a natural process of deterioration due to complexity of needs and decline of cognitive capacity. My experience with disabilities comprises my professional involvement over 4 decades and private over 5 decades. My private experiences with disabilities begin with changing nappies that was as much as normal…. nowadays after 55 years I am in the same boat… nappies became a regular part of my life. Yet the NDIS cut funding for my daughter and recommended increasing her independence.
The planner did not have any knowledge about dual diagnoses, did not have knowledge of long-term usage of psychotropic drugs on the frontal lobe centrum of short and long-term memoirs. I am not the only one experiencing these frustrations with inadequate NDIS frontline staffing. We, parents and primary carers who are entering the stage of frail age, have serious concerns for the future of our children’s safety and care. It is inevitable a radical change to the NDIS services, policies, eligibility, and especially employment of educated staff.