All governments are committed to progressing key disability reforms and working with people with disability to make Australia more inclusive, accessible and safe for people with disability.The Roadmap highlights the key actions all governments will take in 2024 and 2025 to build the foundations and deliver on commitments for the disability and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) reform agenda.
National Disability Services has been calling on government to develop a Disability Reform Roadmap to provide much needed certainty and confidence around how the complex reform agenda will be rolled out.
As promised by the Disability Reform Ministerial Council in June, today’s release of a reform roadmap provides a high level overview of the key actions that all governments will take across 2024 and 2025 to progress the main elements of the reform agenda.
We welcome the government’s commitment to the goals of inclusion and access and rights, and are pleased to see a focus on quality services, and the sustainability of supports and services for people with disability. To achieve this, we need to fix the registration system and put in place truly independent pricing that reflects the actual costs of delivering quality services,
Over the next two years government will focus on progressing actions required to implement the recommendations made by the Disability Royal Commission and developing the rules required to operationalise the amendments to the NDIS Act, along with already planned work to review Australia’s Disability Strategy.
The map also confirms that we can expect a formal response to the NDIS Review and a foundational supports strategy, two pieces of work that we have been advocating for.
Overall, the map brings us a step closer to an integrated approach to reform but there is so much more needed. People, families and providers need much more certainty about what is happening and when so we can plan for the future. Successful reform will rely on co-design with people with disability and co-delivery in partnership with the sector.
Designing the system will be the key to achieving the outcomes promised by the Disability Royal Commission, the NDIS Review and Australia’s Disability Strategy. This needs to be accompanied by timed and costed programs of work and implementation strategies that fill in the detail missing from the current roadmap.
Reform is not happening in a vacuum. There are immediate fixes required to address issues in the NDIS funding environment, like the removal of High Intensity payments for behaviour support, price freezes on support coordination and therapy, no recognition for the costs associated with registration and service quality, and incorrect indexation in participant plans.
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Tags: co-delivery in partnership, co-design with people with disability, Disability Reform Roadmap, Disability Royal Commission, National Disability Insurance Scheme
