Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme / N. Biddle, F. Al-Yaman, M. Gourley, M. Gray, J.R. Bray, B. Brady, L.A. Pham, E. Williams, M. Montaigne
Published
Anu, Acton, A.C.T. : Australian National University Press, 2014
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
Summary
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
