From: To: Community Affairs, Committee (SEN); Subject: Spam: Submission to the Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012 Date: Thursday, 17 January 2013 9:44:44 AM
Please consider this email a formal submission by me to the Senate Standing
Committee on Community Affairs Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance
Scheme Bill 2012.
The current disability system has many problems that need to be addressed.
Because it’s geared more towards intellectual disability and/or mental health and I deal with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). People with ABI’s miss out on a lot of funding opportunities because they don’t tick the right boxes- there’s not enough programs aimed at meeting people with ABI’s needs and the ones that are around try to make the person fit the program rather than fitting the program to the person’s individual needs. This is important because ABI results in very different needs for each individual person and unless a program is flexible enough to address this issue, it is of limited use/effectiveness.
Also for the amount and type of work the staff and carer’s do the pay is crap. Burnout is a huge issue and staff seem to be considered as a disposable commodity. This is ironic and shameful in any industry but especially in one that is supposed to be about caring for people- staff are people too.
The main features of the NDIS that will make a difference to the community are:
People with a disability can choose the types of support to use, People with a disability can plan their lives and pursue their goals and dreams, The ability to receive services when needed and in the way that suits the person
The most important services for the NDIS to provide are:
Life-skills, Support for families and carers, Accommodation options
I support the introduction of the NDIS.
Because if it does what it’s supposed to do, it should give people with disabilities more control over their lives by giving them more choice about the support they receive and how they receive it.
I agree for my submission to be made public