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Submission to the NDIS Review - The urgent need for an enforceable, statutory duty of care for disability services
Response to the NDIS Review’s paper on a new Safeguarding Framework for the NDIS
May 2023
The Alliance provided this submission to the NDIS Review to highlight an urgently needed reform that will improve the accountability of disability service providers for the safety and support of the people with disability who are their clients.
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Submission to the NDIS Review - Completing the National Injury Insurance Scheme… A key sustainability measure for the NDIS
YPINHNA Completion of the NIIS a sustainability imperative for the NDIS. Submission to the NDIS Review
June 2024
In this submission the Alliance addressed the absence of a fully operational no-fault National Injury Insurance Scheme (NIIS) as a major gap in the system of care for Australians living with catastrophic injury sustained in circumstances that are not adequately covered by existing insurance options.
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Submission to the NDIS Review Delivering choice & control for participants living in shared settings… An alternative to SIL
Reforming the group home sector is a complex undertaking.
June 2023
This submission outlines an alternative model for funding, contracting and delivering shared support in residential settings. It should not be seen as an endorsement of group homes but is intended to enable a shift in governance from providers to participants; build participant capacity to articulate their needs and preferences; and negotiate their services.
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Submission to the NDIS Review - What’s reasonable, what’s necessary, what’s legal? The impact of cross billing arrangements on participants in RAC
June 2023
This submission highlights structural deficiencies in the way the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funds its participants living in residential aged care (RAC). These funding arrangements impact negatively on both participants and aged care providers.
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The Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024
The Alliance has consulted with a range of individuals and organisations involved with young onset dementia about the NDIS and the reform outcomes they believe are needed for the scheme. The results of these discussions have informed this submission and its ten recommendations
The Australian Senate referred the provisions of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024 to the Community Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report in June.
As part of this inquiry, the committee asked for the community’s views, specifically in relation to the proposed changes within the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024.
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Pre budget submission January 2023
Our pre budget submission addressed the rapid rise in the number of people living with Young Onset Dementia (YOD); the significant and wide ranging lack of services for this group; and the very real risk that these younger people will be inappropriately placed in residential aged care services because the service options they require simply do not exist.
Our pre budget submission addressed the rapid rise in the number of people living with
Young Onset Dementia (YOD).
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YPINH - Speaking up about where I want to live
Speaking up about where I want to live - a future planning Guide. In 2020 The Alliance worked with a number of people with Down Syndrome at risk of being placed in a residential aged care. These people were either relinquished to hospital when a change in their functional capacity led to house staff admitting them to the emergency department; or when changed circumstances resulted in people being admitted to hospital from their family home. Both groups faced the same challenge of an unclear path home and the risk of aged care placement.
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The Productivity Commission’s Housing and Homelessness Agreement Review 2022
Our work with younger disabled Australians living or at risk of placement in residential aged care, revealed that the current housing offerings for NDIS participants is too narrow to accommodate the diversity of housing need and expectation that Australians with disability have.
Rather than seeing housing as buildings developed in isolation from or with little reference
to the spaces and communities within which they are built, our submission supported a
concept of accessible housing as key to the successful development of inclusive
communities.
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The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability 2021
We provided a brief submission to highlight a key reform we believe is urgently needed to improve the accountability of disability service providers for the safety and support of the people with disability who are their clients.
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National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021
In this submission the Alliance suggested a comprehensive review of the NDIS be undertaken by the Productivity Commission to examine the scheme’s evolution, governance and practice as a social insurance scheme.
Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee