NDIS: Preparedness Now and Going Forward
Griffith University Symposium
December 2014
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NDIS fundamentals
NDIS in Queensland
Milestones to Queensland preparations
Overview – key challenges and opportunities
Queensland preparedness now and going forward
Work in progress - NDIS policy, design and capacity
Work in progress – Quality and safeguards
Work in progress – Housing
Keeping informed
NDIS Fundamentals
The NDIS will see:
• one of the single biggest areas of government investment over
the next decade with major economic, social and financial
implications
• a move to a single national agency – the National Disability
Insurance Agency (NDIA)
• participants with lifetime coverage for disability supports, choice
and control over supports and management of funds
• wider range of supports can be accessed, beyond those being
delivered under disability support system now
• providers operate in a competitive market environment
NDIS in Queensland
In Queensland we will see:
• progressive rollout of NDIS starting 1 July 2016 until full
implementation by 1 July 2019
• people receiving disability supports through the NDIS in
2019 will double to 97,000
• expansion of the workforce with an estimated 13,000
new disability jobs
Queensland preparations milestones
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December 2012: Intergovernmental Agreement for the NDIS launch
committing Queensland to work with all jurisdictions to develop and
implement first stage of the NDIS and develop framework to progress to full
scheme
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May 2013: Heads of Agreement with Commonwealth Government
committing to NDIS commencement in Queensland from July 2016
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December 2013: Queensland Disability Plan 2014-19: Enabling choices and
opportunities released setting out priorities for transitioning to NDIS
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July 2014: MoU with the NDIA to begin footprint in Queensland
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October 2014: Program Management Office established to oversee NDIS
preparation and transition work in the department and across government
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December 2014: Queensland and the Commonwealth Governments are
working together on a high level agreement on the implementation of the
NDIS in Queensland.
Overview - key challenges and
opportunities
• Supporting people with disability and communities to be well
informed and confident about what the NDIS means for them
• Supporting people with disability, families and carers to exercise
choice and take up opportunities
• Supporting non-government organisations to operate in a more
competitive and open environment
• Developing a skilled and strong workforce
• Enhancing mainstream services like health, education, housing,
transport and justice services to enable genuine choice and
participation
Queensland Preparedness Now and Going Forward
Queensland is taking a strategic approach to get ready with a
focus on:
• Consumer readiness
• Provider readiness
• Workforce
• Mainstream and community readiness
Preparations consider Queensland’s unique needs including:
• geographically dispersed population
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, including
discrete communities
• rural and remote communities
NDIS policy, design and capacity
• The NDIS design is still developing – 7 trial sites
• Range of NDIS policy areas where design is yet to be
finalised including:
• Quality and safeguards
• Advocacy
• Information, Linkages and Capacity Building
• Mainstream interfaces
• Workforce
• Housing
Work in Progress : Quality and Safeguards
under the NDIS
• All Governments agreed to the development of a national approach
to quality and safeguards
• COAG Regulatory Impact Statement required due to impact on
various sectors
• Principles to shape framework include:
o Choice and control
o Risk-based and person-centred approach
o Presumption of capacity
o National consistency
o Reducing/minimising regulation
o Administrative efficiency
Work in progress: Housing
• Access to suitable and sustainable housing is a
significant element in the well-being of people with
disability in our journey to the NDIS
• The NDIA will not provide all measures to meet this
increase in housing demand.
• NDIS has the potential to trigger discussion and growth
in innovative living options for people with disability.
Work in progress: Housing
• New and sustainable accommodation options for people
with disability are a high priority for the Queensland
Government.
• The Queensland Government is contributing this work
through the following initiatives
– The Elderly Parent Carer Innovation Trial
– Innovative Living Initiative
• This and working together will help generate or facilitate
innovative housing solutions as we move forward
Keeping informed
Queensland - www.communities.qld.gov.au/ndis
• Sign up to the Queensland NDIS Update e-blast to keep
up to date with latest Queensland info
• The DCCSDS website is a key source of information on
projects and initiatives to prepare for the transition to the
NDIS in Queensland
Nationally - www.ndis.gov.au
• Subscribe to the NDIS e-newsletters and review
information provided on the NDIS website