Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme /

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of the major policy innovations of the early 21st century in Australia, representing a new way of delivering services to people with a disability and those who care for them.

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Main Authors: Biddle, Nicholas, Dr (Author), Al-Yaman, Fadwa (Author), Gourley, Michelle (Author), Gray, M. C. (Matthew C.) (Author), Bray, J. Rob (Author), Brady, Brendan (Author), Pham, L. A. (Le Anh) (Author), Williams, Emma (Professor) (Author), Montaigne, M. (Maxine) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Anu, Acton, A.C.T. : Australian National University Press, 2014.
Series:Research monograph (Australian National University. Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research) ; no. 34.
Subjects:
National Disability Insurance Scheme (Australia)
Aboriginal Australians with disabilities > Services for > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians with disabilities > Care > Australia.
Aboriginal Australians with disabilities > Government policy > Australia.
Long-term care insurance > Law and legislation > Australia.
Social issues and processes.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Long-term care insurance > Law and legislation
Australia
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: developing the National Disability Insurance Scheme
  • 2. Disability in the Indigenous population
  • 3. Disability support services: Indigenous users and barriers to access
  • 4. Current dataset gaps and limitations
  • 5. Delivering disability services
  • 6. Existing evaluations of service delivery models
  • 7. Providing a disability workforce
  • 8. Key issues for disability service delivery models for remote Indigenous communities
  • Appendix 1: Projection methodology for Remote Service Delivery Areas
  • Appendix 2: How Indigenous persons with a disability were identified in the NATSISS, Census and SDAC
  • Appendix 3: Key questions to inform NDIS and mapping to available data
  • Appendix 4: Data sources on disability for the Indigenous population
  • Appendix 5: Attachment tables.

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