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.

THE DISABILITY POLICY MAKING PROCESS

2020 ◽  
Vol 559 (10) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Paweł Kubicki ◽  
Adriana Mica ◽  
Mikołaj Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Public Policy Process ◽  
Policy Making Process

Our goal is to analyze the disability policy making process in Poland on the example of implementing the assumptions of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The key tool we use is the model of the five streams of the public policy process: problem, solutions, politics, process and program. In particular, we look at the role played by the movement of people with disabilities in this process. We claim that the weakness of the movements and the origins of activism of people with disabilities other than in Western countries makes the implementation of the Convention in Poland difficult and often ends in failure.

scholarly journals The Relative Risk of Homelessness among Persons with a Disability: New Methods and Policy Insights

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (22) ◽  
pp. 4304
Author(s):  
Andrew Beer ◽  
Emma Baker ◽  
Laurence Lester ◽  
Lyrian Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Relative Risk ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Subsequent Paper ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Ambitious Program ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

This paper reports on the first phase of an ambitious program of research that seeks to both understand the risk of homelessness amongst persons with a disability in Australia and shed light on the impact of a significant policy reform—the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)—in changing the level of homelessness risk. This first paper, reports on the level of homelessness risk for persons with a disability prior to the introduction of the NDIS, with a subsequent paper providing updated data and analysis for the period post the implementation of the NDIS. In one sense, this paper provides the ‘base’ condition prior to the introduction of the NDIS but also serves a far broader role in advancing our understanding of how disability and chronic ill-health affects the risk of homelessness. Our research finds that in the period prior to the introduction of the NDIS, a large proportion of people with disabilities were at risk of homelessness, but those whose disabilities affected their schooling or employment were at the greatest risk.

The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme and People With Disabilities From CALD Backgrounds

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Hossein Adibi
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Process ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
People With Disability ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Trial Implementation

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is considered to be the second greatest reform in healthcare in Australia after the introduction of Medicare in Australia in 1983. This reform was introduced in 2012 in two phases. The first phase as a trial took place for three years. The expectation was that the reform will be rolled out by 2019 or 2020. This article argues that the trial implementation process has achieved very positive outcomes in the lives of a great number of people with disability in Australia. At the same time, NDIS is facing many serious challenges in some areas. One of the obvious challenges is that this reform is a market approached reform. The second challenge relates to meeting the needs of minorities. People with disabilities from Culturally and Linguistically Divers (CALD) backgrounds are one of the five most venerable, underutilised users of NDIS services in Australia. They have no strong voice and negotiable abilities. The main question here is how NDIS is to meet its commitment to satisfy the needs of these vulnerable people in Australia.

scholarly journals Supporting Choice and Control—An Analysis of the Approach Taken to Legal Capacity in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme

Laws ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Cukalevski
Keyword(s):  
Support Services ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Major Step ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Political Right ◽  
And Control

In mid-2013, the Australian federal government introduced the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a ground-breaking reform of disability support services, encapsulated by the mantra of increasing “choice and control”. The scheme provides eligible persons with disabilities a legislated entitlement to supports they may require to increase their independence and social and economic participation. The NDIS has been hailed as a major step forward in Australia’s efforts to realize the human rights of persons with disabilities, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). A core aspect of the CRPD is guaranteeing persons with disabilities their civil and political right to equality before the law, including their right to enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others, as provided by Article 12 of the CRPD. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the concept of choice and control has been operationalized within the NDIS and to critically analyze the extent to which it accords with the requirements of Article 12. It will be argued that even though the NDIS expressly seeks to implement the CRPD as one of its key objectives, it ultimately falls short in fully embracing the obligations of Article 12 and the notions of autonomy and personhood underlying it.

scholarly journals Policy Watch: U.S. Disability Policy in a Changing Environment

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard V Burkhauser ◽  
Mary C Daly
Keyword(s):  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Heterogeneous Population ◽  
Disability Policy ◽  
Disability Benefit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Economic Perspectives ◽  
Social Security Disability

In this paper we provide a context for evaluating the goals and effectiveness of current disability policy. We review the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs and examine trends in disability benefit receipt and employment among working-age people with disabilities. We discuss the difficulties in crafting efficient and equitable programs for this difficult to target, heterogeneous population. We conclude that changes in policy rather than in underlying health are most likely behind the increases in disability benefit receipt and the declines in employment of working-age people with disabilities over the 1990s business cycle. This feature contains short articles on topics that are currently on the agendas of policymakers, thus illustrating the role of economic analysis in illuminating current debates. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to C. Eugene Steuerle, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

‘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.

The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme and People With Disabilities From CALD Backgrounds

2022 ◽  
pp. 694-712
Author(s):  
Hossein Adibi
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Process ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
People With Disability ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Trial Implementation

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is considered to be the second greatest reform in healthcare in Australia after the introduction of Medicare in Australia in 1983. This reform was introduced in 2012 in two phases. The first phase as a trial took place for three years. The expectation was that the reform will be rolled out by 2019 or 2020. This article argues that the trial implementation process has achieved very positive outcomes in the lives of a great number of people with disability in Australia. At the same time, NDIS is facing many serious challenges in some areas. One of the obvious challenges is that this reform is a market approached reform. The second challenge relates to meeting the needs of minorities. People with disabilities from Culturally and Linguistically Divers (CALD) backgrounds are one of the five most venerable, underutilised users of NDIS services in Australia. They have no strong voice and negotiable abilities. The main question here is how NDIS is to meet its commitment to satisfy the needs of these vulnerable people in Australia.

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