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 11:29:13 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.
A friend that I went to high school with her sister (who I also new well) was involved in a bike accident (car hit her while cycling) as a result was severely injured and required around the clock care.
Apart from the devistation of her accident (the state that it left her in). Her family was forced to modify their home at great expense to accomadate her injuries and on-going care. When her condition worsened. They were not able to look after her. The only place she could be housed was a geriatic facility. She was in her twenties.
What people dont realise is that an inceident like this can affect anyone. It is not until your family has to go through a trauma and live through it’s aftermath that you have some insight into the day to day struggle for the individual their family and health professionals and the toll it takes on all involved - at all levels.
Care, support, services and education should be available and provided to those in need at a high in this country. The fact that it is’nt is shocking.
The main features of the NDIS that will make a difference to the community are:
Ensure support and equipment is available when needed, People with a disability can choose the types of support to use, Better access to mainstream support and services, Better access to education and work opportunities, More opportunities to participate in the community, More employment of people with disability and less reliance on social welfare, More rights for people with a disability, People with a disability can plan their lives and pursue their goals and dreams, People with disability can choose who comes into their home, The ability to receive services when needed and in the way that suits the person, Increased ability to coordinate services to suit the “whole” person/family, Minimising the number of times people have to tell their story in order to get support, Less red tape, with planning done locally by people who know their community, Access to reliable information about support options, Removal of age barriers to services for children, People with disabilit y/family will influence the types of support and services offered, 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:
Support for families and carers, In-home care and domestic assistance, Crisis and emergency support
I support the introduction of the NDIS.
Our current legislation and disability infrastructure does not provide people affected by disabilities and their cares with the ability to make appropriate and necessary choices to govern an individual and their family.
People wth disabilities (and especially their carers) deserve all of the above mentioned support at a high level. With no discrimination of someones disability or severity or location that they live (Metro or regional)
I felt I had to voice my support for the NDIS for what they are trying to acheive as our current national / state policies and the disability system itself is far from adequate. It needs a major overhaul.
I agree for my submission to be made public