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 10:42:42 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.
Currently i have no idea what/how I could access help if I needed it. From what I hear there is very little help/money available and no alternative to parents becoming unpaid full time carers if their children are or become disabled.
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, Less red tape, with planning done locally by people who know their community, Removal of age barriers to services for children
The most important services for the NDIS to provide are:
Support for families and carers, In-home care and domestic assistance, Flexible in-home/outside home respite
I support the introduction of the NDIS.
Disability could happen to any of us at any time. Most of us are not insured for it. We should be.
I agree for my submission to be made public