Analysing Choice in Australian Individual Funding Disability Policies

Purcal, Christiane; Fisher, Karen R.; Laragy, Carmel

doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12063

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“…The homelessness service sector also needs to have the flexibility and capacity to respond to changes in government funding models, such as those that are currently facing the disability services sector (Purcal, Fisher et al 2014). The individualised funding that has been implemented under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provides a key example of the move away from traditional models of program funding to individualised, person-centred approaches and tailored packages of client care.…”

Section: Funding Streams and Flexibilitymentioning

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Inquiry into funding and delivery of programs to reduce homelessness

Flatau¹,

Zaretzky²,

Valentine

et al. 2017

AHURI Final Report

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AHURI report 279iii AHURI AHURI is a national independent research network with an expert not-for-profit research management company, AHURI Limited, at its centre.AHURI's mission is to deliver high quality research that influences policy development and practice change to improve the housing and urban environments of all Australians.Using high quality, independent evidence and through active, managed engagement, AHURI works to inform the policies and practices of governments and the housing and urban development industries, and stimulate debate in the broader Australian community.AHURI undertakes evidence-based policy development on a range of priority policy topics that are of interest to our audience groups, including housing and labour markets, urban growth and renewal, planning and infrastructure development, housing supply and affordability, homelessness, economic productivity, and social cohesion and wellbeing.

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Section: Funding Streams and Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Inquiry into funding and delivery of programs to reduce homelessness

Flatau¹,

Zaretzky²,

Valentine

et al. 2017

AHURI Final Report

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“…Originally adopted to authorise making social security payments to an account of a third party nominee rather than the pensioner (what in the US are called "representative payee" schemes: [60]), nominee powers were later adapted to provide for the appointment of "correspondence nominees" (a less intrusive function) and, more recently, were taken as a template for National Disability Insurance Scheme ("NDIS") arrangements for appointment of "plan nominees" engaged to assist people to settle the bundle of resources covered by their individualised budgets through personal plan entitlements under the NDIS [61].…”

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confidence: 99%

Supported Decision-Making for People with Cognitive Impairments: An Australian Perspective?

Carney

2015

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Honouring the requirement of the Convention on the Rights of Persons withDisabilities to introduce supported decision-making poses many challenges. Not least of those challenges is in writing laws and devising policies which facilitate access to formal and informal supports for large numbers of citizens requiring assistance with day-to-day issues such as dealing with welfare agencies, managing income security payments, or making health care decisions. Old measures such as representative payee schemes or "nominee" arrangements are not compatible with the CRPD. However, as comparatively routine social security or other government services become increasingly complex to navigate, and as self-managed or personalised budgets better recognise self-agency, any "off the shelf" measures become more difficult to craft and difficult to resource. This paper focuses on recent endeavours of the Australian Law Reform Commission and other local and overseas law reform and policy initiatives to tackle challenges posed both for ordinary citizens and those covered by special programs (such as Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme and "disability trusts" in Australia and Canada).

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“…Other states have progressively introduced relatively small scale individualised funding programmes in the disability sector and more recently in aged care (Laragy and Allen, 2015;Purcal et al, 2014).…”

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A framework for providing information in individualised funding programmes

Laragy

David

Moran

2015

Qualitative Social Work

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The need for all people with disability to have access to reliable information before they can make informed choices in individualised funding programmes is well documented. However, little guidance exists on how information can be provided to ensure it reaches its target audience. While information provision is important everywhere, there is a pressing need in the Australian context to ensure all people have access to information as the National Disability Insurance Scheme is designed and introduced. The authors identified key principles of information provision documented in the literature and used these to analyse their data from Australian studies of individualised funding programmes. The data came from 143 transcripts and records of interview in five studies conducted from 2011 to 2013. The analysis confirmed the importance of the principles previously documented and identified two additional principles, these being related to gender and 'hard to reach' groups. This analysis informs a new framework to increase equity and improve people's access to information in individualised funding programmes. Information needs to be: (i) accessible and diverse in format, mode, source and location; (ii) personalised and targeted; (iii) accurate, consistent and timely; (iv) from a trusted source; (v) independent; (vi) culturally appropriate; (vii) actively promoted to 'hard to reach' groups and (viii) gender appropriate. This paper provides a new framework to guide information in individualised funding programmes for professionals in roles ranging from policy makers to service delivery.

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Analysing Choice in Australian Individual Funding Disability Policies

Cited by 63 publications

References 28 publications

Inquiry into funding and delivery of programs to reduce homelessness

Inquiry into funding and delivery of programs to reduce homelessness

Supported Decision-Making for People with Cognitive Impairments: An Australian Perspective?

A framework for providing information in individualised funding programmes

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