Submission No 327
INQUIRY INTO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME AND THE PROVISION OF DISABILITY SERVICES IN NEW SOUTH WALES
Name: Mr Brian Algeo Date Received: 10 July 2018
The NDIS is in it’s second year in my area of Ipswich and I can already see services are being regulated by a bureaucracy. NDIS was always meant to meet a client needs and now we have bureaucrats dictating what the client needs really are and who gets to be a carer. It seems it’s all about public servants, pay points, benefits and long service entitlements more than the actually taking care of disabled people who are forced to jump and leap with the option of no service if you don’t. The vacuum created between needs of clients and what a bureaucrat decides is adequate due to some test is appalling and dehumanises the process without any real avenue for scrutiny or negotiation by clients and their carers. The NDIS which promised so much has not delivered an open and transparent process in it’s present form and if it was always going to be an extension of an old regime of bureaucrats then just come out and say it.