Productivity Commission Draft Report: NDIS and NIIS

The Productivity Commission has released its draft report Disability Care and Support, containing recommendations on Australia’s disability support system.

The Productivity Commission has released its draft report Disability Care and Support, containing recommendations on Australia’s disability support system. The draft recommends the creation of two new national insurance schemes to cover all Australians: the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), for most disabilities, and the National Injury Insurance Scheme (NIIS), to support people with catastrophic injuries following major accidents.

If accepted by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, reforms would begin in 2014 and extend to the entire country in 2015. The inquiry, led by presiding commissioner Patricia Scott, found that “the current disability support system is underfunded, unfair, fragmented and inefficient, and gives people with a disability little choice and no certainty of access to appropriate supports”.

For further information and to view a copy of the report, go to the Productivity Commission website.

As part of the campaign to get the National Disability Insurance Scheme in place, Melbourne Citymission is co-sponsoring two regional forums in early April.

Please see attached flyer for details.

If you could circulate these to those who you work with, that would be very helpful. The forums will provide an overview of the Productivity Commission's draft report, and will provide an opportunity for those attending to help to formulate the respose to the recommendations in that report.

The forums will also encourage those attending to develop their own resposnse to the draft report, and will provide information on the ways this can be done.

Further information about other forums (they are being held across Melbourne and regional Victoria) will be published on the campaign web-site: http://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/