From: To: Community Affairs, Committee (SEN); Subject: Submission to the Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill 2012 Date: Friday, 21 December 2012 7:07:42 PM
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.
I am very concerned that with increasing privatisation, there will be more unprofessional players in service provision. Already I see many therapists/carers/workers who fail to set goals with the family, fail to have the skills to assist the family reach the goals for themselves, and fail to have any review process. Too often it is more like babysitting, with inappropriate behaviours being reinforced, and no sense of people working toward something. I want to see standards set and applied, and a very clear pathway for parents so that they can access these standards and complain easily.
The main features of the NDIS that will make a difference to the community are:
More employment of people with disability and less reliance on social welfare, Increased ability to coordinate services to suit the “whole” person/family, Access to reliable information about support options
The most important services for the NDIS to provide are:
Support for families and carers, Flexible in-home/outside home respite, Positive behaviour support and psychological services
I support the introduction of the NDIS.
At the moment in Western Australia, to get any decent funding you have to provide a picture of extreme distress where you paint the child as a horrible person that puts you at risk. Not only do we want support before children become dysfunctional within their own home, but we don’t want to have to focus on the challenging behaviour. Children are more than their bad behaviour, and support should be available before the family starts to break down. We want to use funding to prevent challenging behaviours and parental burn out, and to build our relationships with our children and focus on a decent quality of life.
I agree for my submission to be made public
Regards,
Ms kate ollier