From: To: Community Affairs, Committee (SEN); Subject: Submission to the Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012 Date: Thursday, 17 January 2013 10:15:56 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.
Too much red tape and multi-level/duplicated paperwork and processes.
The main features of the NDIS that will make a difference to the community are:
Increased ability to coordinate services to suit the “whole” person/family, Removal of age barriers to services for children, Older parents and families will not worry what happens when they can no longer provide support
The most important services for the NDIS to provide are:
Life-skills, Support for families and carers, Positive behaviour support and psychological services
I support the introduction of the NDIS.
I would like to see a much better lifestyle for disabled folk of all ages, and more importantly a better balance in assessments etc. between the needs of the disabled folk and their family and carers. So often during conversations with health care workers, they don’t seem to listen to either the carer or the disabled person - they focus almost solely on one party only. They all need to look at the “big picture” and remember in these situations there are always two sides to everything.
I agree for my submission to be made public