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.

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 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. 

scholarly journals Risk and Opportunity—The Leadership Challenge in a World of Uncertainty—Learnings from Research into the Implementation of the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 383
Author(s):  
David Rosenbaum ◽  
Elizabeth More
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Implementation Challenges

This paper considers the risks and opportunities inherent in a major national change process through a descriptive approach to the implementation challenges for Australian non-profit disability service providers as they grapple with the implementation of the transformational National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). It highlights the leadership challenges associated with the newly developed NDIS Implementation Framework and, in doing so, recognises the risk and opportunity issues contained with that implementation process. The research used grounded theory coupled with framework analysis in a qualitative study that, in part, sought to identify leadership characteristics deemed necessary to minimize risks, capitalize on opportunities, and support positive change outcomes leading to successful NDIS implementations amongst several participating organisations, each with differing demographics and at different stages in the implementation process. The findings, which have been grouped into phases, suggest a range of leadership attributes at key phases of the NDIS implementation that are necessary to minimise implementation risks and maximise opportunities associated with the NDIS. These phases have been identified as: (i) An input phase where the emphasis must be on internal change preparedness and external environmental impacts and drivers; (ii) A process phase where the emphasis is on direct implementation issues; and (iii) An outcomes phase where active consideration needs to be on organisational mission sustainability, as well as the risk and opportunity challenge. The study is crucial in revealing leadership challenges and lessons for large scale change and risk management in the non-profit sector, within and beyond the specific case of Australia’s NDIS implementation, useful for both scholars and practitioners.

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.

Daily life in National Disability Insurance Scheme times: Parenting a child with Down syndrome and the disability politics in everyday places

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-548
Author(s):  
Belinda Jane Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
People With Disability ◽  
Regular Family ◽  
Children With Intellectual Disability

Social inclusion for people with disability is bound up with experiences of place in everyday life. In Australia, the inclusion agenda has been recently propelled by the National Disability Insurance Scheme which promotes – and funds – the full inclusion of people with disability so that their lives are conducted in everyday settings. This article addresses what lies between the aspirational policy principles of full inclusion and the experience of family life with a young child who has Down syndrome. Through auto-ethnographic inquiry, a series of vignettes describe my own encounters in everyday places such as shops, childcare centres and public swimming pools. I focus on ‘sense of place’ which is generated through everyday practices and can shape individual identity and belonging. Using ideas from feminist poststructuralism and critical disability studies, I argue that ableist discourses on disability are produced by people in everyday places through their attitudes, actions and expectations, disrupting regular family life and imposing oppressive modes of subjectivity upon children with intellectual disability and their parent-carers. In response, parents of children with intellectual disability are challenged to undertake the political labour of everyday disability advocacy. It is important for social work to recognise that this labour can become a significant part of the contemporary parent-carer role.

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.

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