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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132293803321

Titolo

Indigenous Australians and the National Disability Insurance Scheme / / N. Biddle [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, Australia : , : Australian National University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-925021-89-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 176 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

CAEPR Research Monograph Series ; ; Number 34

Disciplina

368.382

Soggetti

Aboriginal Australians with disabilities - Services for - Australia

Aboriginal Australians with disabilities - Care - Australia

Aboriginal Australians with disabilities - Government policy - Australia

Long-term care insurance - Law and legislation - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations and acronyms; Acknowledgements; Author affiliations; 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; References

Appendix 1: Projection methodology for Remote Service Delivery AreasAppendix 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; CAEPR Research Monograph Series

Sommario/riassunto

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.