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.

Burdensome Administration and Its Risks: Competing Logics in Policy Implementation

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 1362-1381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Carey ◽  
Helen Dickinson ◽  
Eleanor Malbon ◽  
Megan Weier ◽  
Gordon Duff
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
System Change ◽  
Disability Services ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Social Policy Reform ◽  
The Impact

Australia is currently undergoing significant social policy reform under the introduction of a personalized scheme for disability services: the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This article explores the growing administrative burdens placed on disability providers operating under the new scheme, using an Australia-wide survey of the disability sector. The 2018 National Disability Services survey of the disability sector reveals that administrative burden is the most commented on challenge for providers. Moreover, providers linked this burden to questions concerning their financial sustainability and ability to continue to offer services within the NDIS. In this article, we explore the sources of these administrative burdens and their relationships with the institutional logics at play in the NDIS. In addition to documenting the impact of system change on the Australian disability service sector, this article raises questions regarding institutional hybridity within personalization schemes more broadly and whether they are a source of tension, innovation, or both.

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.

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 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.

It Is More Than Language

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Dianne Toe ◽  
Louise Paatsch ◽  
Amy Szarkowski
Keyword(s):  
Specific Area ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Social And Emotional Development ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pragmatic Skills ◽  
Social Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light

Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children who use spoken language face unique challenges when communicating with others who have typical hearing, particularly their peers. In such contexts, the social use of language has been recognized as an area of vulnerability among individuals in this population and has become a focus for research and intervention. The development of pragmatic skills intersects with many aspects of child development, including emotional intelligence and executive function, as well as social and emotional development. While all these areas are important, they are beyond the scope of this chapter, which highlights the impact of pragmatics on the specific area of cognition. Cognitive pragmatics is broadly defined as the study of the mental processes involved in the understanding of meaning in the context of a cooperative interaction. This chapter explores how DHH children and young people construe meaning in the context of conversations and expository interactions with their peers. The chapter aims to examine the role played by the cognitive processes of making inferences and comprehending implicature, within the overall display of pragmatic skills. Further, the authors use this lens in the analysis of interactions between DHH children and their peers in order to shed light on the development of pragmatic skills in children who are DHH.

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