Policy context
Implementation
All Australians under the age of 65 who acquire a permanent (or likely to be permanent) disability, including people with a psychiatric disability, that has a significantly impact on the way the person lives their everyday life and the ability to participate will be eligible for funding of support services based on their individual needs. The scheme will, however, only fund disability supports where they are not part of another service system’s ‘universal service obligation’, such as health, education or housing (NDS, 2011). An ‘early intervention’ eligibility criterion was intended to provide people accepted into the NDIS with access to supports designed to minimize or reduce functional impairment, reduce the …show more content…
Over forty years after legislation began to be introduced, social structures and public’s attitudes still perpetuating discrimination. According to Howe (2004), the history of disability reform in Australia may have began when the (clause 51 (xxiii) was introduce in the constitution. The commonwealth parliament began to pay means tested invalid pensions in October 1910. But, it was not until the 1970’s that serious debates began about treatment or rehabilitation. The most important issues debated during the Whitlam’s government were specifically on payments given strictly to pensioners and employees. In the 1970’s Woodhouse proposed a national compensation scheme (Mendelsohn, 1979). In 1983 the Hawke government made significant reforms, such as the Handicapped Programs Review and New Directions 1985. “Those programs recognised the need for a change of culture in disability policy” (Howe, 2004). Furthermore, the Disability Services Act (1986) was worked through in legislation. The Social Security Review (1988) as cited by Howe (2004) emphasised that ‘people with disabilities should have the same rights as other members of Australian society to realise their individual capacities for physical, social emotional and intellectual development’. Then, a Disability Reform Package (1989) at the Commonwealth level offered better access to rehabilitation, vocational and training designed to increase employment. In the final months of the Keating government, the review’s recommendations were used to initiate discussion about new funding that promoted notions of individualisation, performance outcomes and competitive contracting (Department of Human Services and Health, 1995). But according to Ryan (2005) it was under the Howard Coalition government (1996–2007) that disability policy was most
Implementation
All Australians under the age of 65 who acquire a permanent (or likely to be permanent) disability, including people with a psychiatric disability, that has a significantly impact on the way the person lives their everyday life and the ability to participate will be eligible for funding of support services based on their individual needs. The scheme will, however, only fund disability supports where they are not part of another service system’s ‘universal service obligation’, such as health, education or housing (NDS, 2011). An ‘early intervention’ eligibility criterion was intended to provide people accepted into the NDIS with access to supports designed to minimize or reduce functional impairment, reduce the …show more content…
Over forty years after legislation began to be introduced, social structures and public’s attitudes still perpetuating discrimination. According to Howe (2004), the history of disability reform in Australia may have began when the (clause 51 (xxiii) was introduce in the constitution. The commonwealth parliament began to pay means tested invalid pensions in October 1910. But, it was not until the 1970’s that serious debates began about treatment or rehabilitation. The most important issues debated during the Whitlam’s government were specifically on payments given strictly to pensioners and employees. In the 1970’s Woodhouse proposed a national compensation scheme (Mendelsohn, 1979). In 1983 the Hawke government made significant reforms, such as the Handicapped Programs Review and New Directions 1985. “Those programs recognised the need for a change of culture in disability policy” (Howe, 2004). Furthermore, the Disability Services Act (1986) was worked through in legislation. The Social Security Review (1988) as cited by Howe (2004) emphasised that ‘people with disabilities should have the same rights as other members of Australian society to realise their individual capacities for physical, social emotional and intellectual development’. Then, a Disability Reform Package (1989) at the Commonwealth level offered better access to rehabilitation, vocational and training designed to increase employment. In the final months of the Keating government, the review’s recommendations were used to initiate discussion about new funding that promoted notions of individualisation, performance outcomes and competitive contracting (Department of Human Services and Health, 1995). But according to Ryan (2005) it was under the Howard Coalition government (1996–2007) that disability policy was most