Submission No 210
INQUIRY INTO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME AND THE PROVISION OF DISABILITY SERVICES IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Name: Ms Angele Van Den Heuvel Date Received: 8 August 2018
dear folk,
there is so much wrong with the NDIS i hardly know where to start. i could write a book and still not cover it all.
this form of NDIS you are offering is NOT the NIDS we requested, you have changed it so much it is no longer recognisable.. we requested an adjunct to Medicare to cover costs not otherwise catered for such as wheelchairs, prosthetics etc , we DID NOT expect you would gut and remove DADHC and its funding. DADHC and NCIS are 2 totally separate entities, as they should be, but one does not and cannot replace the other. to destroy DADHC and funnel the savings into NDIS while claiming that NDIS funding has blown out your budget is a total lie. many of us who were on DADHC funding are now fighting to be considered for NDIS and constantly being told it is not the same thing so not to expect the same. problem is, DADHC was working for us, NDIS is not. many of us cannot even access NDIS and are left out in the cold, lives destroyed and minimised.
your biggest problem is privitisation, this is wrong. every private provider taking their cut, and each one giving different information to the other. so far my son has had 3 access workers, all of whom admitted they knew less about NDIS than i did. we are still waiting for a plan to arrive despite multiple consultations. it is broken before it has begun. scrap NDIS now, definitely get rid of privitisation and return it to one centralised govt run and funded body or go back to DADHC. We are gutted.
angele van den heuvel