Reply to Higgins’ (2019) Commentary on “Positive behaviour support in Australian disability policy, and its future with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)” (Hayward, McKay-Brown, & Poed, 2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Brent A. Hayward ◽  
Lisa McKay-Brown ◽  
Shiralee Poed
Keyword(s):  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Positive Behaviour Support

‘It’s your problem, not mine’: does competence have anything to do with desire and aspiration to self-direct?

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Crozier ◽  
Heidi Muenchberger
Keyword(s):  
Research Evidence ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
Fundamental Needs

The current disability policy paradigm operating across all states in Australia is self-direction. This central movement is closely linked to preparations for a National Disability Insurance Scheme called DisabilityCare. We provide one perspective in relation to self-direction in Australia including assumptions about aspirations to self-direct and the limited research evidence base that is available even though anecdotally self-direction practices have been occurring for many years. We conclude that by developing a funding platform, such as DisabilityCare, that empowers people with a disability to make decisions about their own fundamental needs and the fulfilment of them, it will lead to a society that supports people to access and achieve a ‘typical’ and desired life.

Disability Policy and Active Citizenship: The Case of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme

2020 ◽  
pp. 104420732093227
Author(s):  
Timothy Earle ◽  
Normand Boucher
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Welfare State

In this article, we illustrate how Australia’s new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) extends the active citizenship of people with disabilities. This is done by examining how the NDIS changes their relation between persons with disabilities and to the welfare state, and through an analysis of its eligibility criteria and needs assessment planning. The support provided and the way in which it is provided reproduce a particular understanding of disability that has a direct influence on the roles assigned to people with disabilities in society as well as on their opportunities to exercise their rights as active citizens. This is important because the implementation of NDIS in Australia is likely to influence the development of disability policy on a global level. Understanding how its mechanisms restricts or facilitates citizenship is therefore crucial.

scholarly journals The Implementation of the NDIS: Who Wins, Who Loses?

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Green ◽  
Jane Mears
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Major Step ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
People With Disability

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a major paradigm shift in funding and support for people with disability in Australia. It is a person centered model that has at its core a change in government funding away from service providers direct to individuals with disability. In principle it is heralded as a major step forward in disability rights. Nonetheless, the implementation poses threats as well as benefits. This paper outlines potential threats or risks from the perspective of not-for-profit organisations, workers in the sector and most importantly people with disability.  It draws on a range of recent reports on the sector, person centered models of funding and care, the NDIS and past experience. Its purpose is to forewarn the major issues so that implementers can be forearmed. 

‘The age of entitlement has ended’: designing a disability insurance scheme in turbulent times

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavla Miller
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
General Revenue ◽  
Unpaid Labour ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Liberal Government

AbstractIn a period of welfare state retrenchment, Australia's neo-liberal government is continuing to implement an expensive National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Australia is among the pioneers of welfare measures funded from general revenue. Until recently, however, attempts to establish national schemes of social insurance have failed. The paper reviews this history through the lenses of path dependence accounts. It then presents contrasting descriptions of the NDIS by its Chair, the politician who inspired him, and two feminist policy analysts from a carers’ organisation. Path dependence, these accounts illustrate, has been broken in some respects but consolidated in others. In particular, the dynamics of ‘managed’ capitalist markets, gendered notions of abstract individuals and organisations, and the related difficulties in accounting for unpaid labour are constraining the transformative potential of the NDIS.

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