Who seeks and will not take, when once ’tis offered,
Shall never find it more.
Anthony and Cleopatra, Act two,
Scene seven
This posts provides a link to a recent working paper of mine, Implementing disability policy reform: Challenges and opportunities, published on the Centre for Indigenous Policy Research (formerly CAEPR) website (link here) which takes as its starting point the 2023 Review of the NDIS (link here) and assesses the challenges involved in implementing that Review’s recommendations. While the paper considers the key mainstream recommendations of the Review, including their relationship with the complex shared funding arrangements with the states and territories, the Working Paper’s primary focus are the challenges that are embedded in the Review recommendations for Indigenous interests.
In particular, the design of the mainstream NDIS scheme, based as it is
on the existence of private sector disability services providers, creates
substantial risks for the effective delivery of disability services in remote
settings. The Review made a series of recommendations for addressing this
issue, however successful implementation will involve overcoming the
significant risks of implementation failure.
The paper begins from an assumption that the Government will broadly
accept the Review recommendations, and suggests that the implementation
challenges and risks are formidable. In relation to the Indigenous elements of
the Review implementation agenda, the working paper (inter alia) argues for a stand-alone
cross-agency implementation capability incorporating Board or Advisory Council membership
nominated by Indigenous interests to be established with a finite lifespan of
say five years. The Working Paper argues that the risks of implementation failure
are high and that effective and successful implementation will require
sustained advocacy by Indigenous interests across all jurisdictions.
30 July 2024
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