February 2013

The NDIS
• will support people with permanent and significant disability, their families and carers
• is a new way approach of personalised support for people with disability
• focused on choice and control and a lifetime approach to a person’s disability support needs

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• People with disability are in control and have choices, based on the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
• The National Disability Insurance Scheme is financially sustainable and is governed using insurance principles.
• The community has ownership, confidence and pride in the National Disability Insurance
Scheme and the National Disability Insurance
Agency.

• Queensland and Australian Governments have reached agreement for the full implementation of the NDIS in
Queensland.
• The NDIS commences in Queensland on 1 July 2016 and will be fully implemented by 1 July 2019.
• By 2019, the NDIA will be responsible for full implementation of the NDIS. The Queensland Government will no provide specialist disability services but will have a key role in the NDIS as a funding stakeholder.
• The Queensland Government will have responsibility for basic community care services for people not eligible for the NDIS.

• When fully operational, around 97,000
Queenslanders with significant or profound disability will have choice and control over the support they receive
• 45,000 people currently receiving services are likely to move to the NDIS

People with disability
• Participants will undertake a planning process
• Reasonable and necessary disability supports will be set out in individual plans to meet the goals of people with disability over their life time
• Participants choose who delivers the supports in their plan and contract directly with providers
• Participants can request to self-manage the funding for supports

Reasonable and necessary disability supports
• will assist the participant to pursue their goals, objectives and aspirations
• will facilitate the participant’s social and economic participation
• represents value for money
• effective and beneficial for the participant, having regard to current good practice
• takes account of what it is reasonable to expect families, carers, informal networks and the community to provide
• more appropriately funded or provided through other general systems
Supports not funded or provided under the NDIS
• likely to cause harm to participant or pose risk to others
• n ot related to the participant’s disability
• relates to day-to-day living costs that are not directly attributable to a participants disability support needs

Providers
• Operate in a market approach
• Will contract directly with participants who will buy supports from them.
• Will be paid following delivery of the support
• May be paid by participants, by plan management providers or make claims directly to the NDIA
• Register with the NDIA – meet NDIA Terms and
Conditions

• More than double current level of funding
• More than double number of participants
• Wider range of types of supports including increased purchase from broader community and business sectors
• Potential double number of jobs (increase of 13,000 FTE positions)

Queensland Government preparation for the NDIS
Queensland Disability Plan
• Preparation for the NDIS in Queensland and for inclusion in mainstream support
Communication and engagement strategy
• Covers the three groups in the work program
(sector, departmental, whole-of-government)
• Awareness raising – targeted messages and method of communication for broad range of target groups

Queensland Government preparation for the NDIS
Sector: people with disability
• Build capacity of people with disability, families and carers to:
– how to plan well to be ready
– what is involved in managing their plan and funding

Queensland Government preparation for the NDIS
Sector: service providers
• Build capacity of disability service providers to understand and adapt sustainably to the
NDIS environment
• Support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and rural and remote communities to develop local solutions for local challenges

Queensland Government preparation for the NDIS
Disability services reform
• More individualised funding arrangements –
Your Life Your Choice
• Streamline access to aids and equipment
• Streamlined program arrangements
• Review of support arrangements for people with high and complex support needs
• Review and amend legislation as needed

Queensland contribution to
National NDIS development
Ongoing policy and implementation work
• Queensland Centre of Excellence for Clinical
Innovation and Behaviour Support expert advice on:
– Clinical expertise, evidence based practice
– Restrictive practices and positive behaviour support
– Clinician and sector readiness in response to high and complex needs and evidence-based practice
– Research
• Quality and Safeguards
• Aids and Equipment –
Queensland Competition
Authority

Queensland Government’s disability website www.communities.qld.gov.au/disability/keyprojects/national-disability-insurance-scheme
The National Disability Insurance Agency www.ndis.gov.au