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 11:31:22 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.
The current system is to reactive and not proactive/preventative. People have to wait until crisi point before they receive services. People have to have a degree in creative writing in order to fill in a form and explain (over and over again) that they have a genuine need - sometimes over exaggerating their situation in order to get a response.
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, The ability to receive services when needed and in the way that suits the person, Removal of age barriers to services for children
The most important services for the NDIS to provide are:
Therapy and allied health services, Accommodation options, Case management, planning and coordination
I support the introduction of the NDIS.
Because I see the struggles of the carers and individuals I support. And if I as a worker in the system find it difficult to navigate, limiting and frustrating, how can we expect stressed and under-resourced individuals with a disability and/or their carers to achieve positive outcomes and be less dependent on an ineffective system.
Because there are still far too many people in Australia who don’t think it will happen to them or that it’s of concern. It may never happen to them, but that isn’t an argument to provide sub standard care and services to those who are affected by disability.
I agree for my submission to be made public