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Building disability policy system with layers will avoid cost blowouts: commissioner
The solution?
If we build a disability policy system that has layers to it, that understands the interrelationship between local, state and commonwealth governments – most importantly understands the need for a whole of community attitude to improve in relation to areas such as employment, then that [$100b per year] figure will not be reached, instead we’ll have a disability policy system that’s the envy of the world.
What has happened is everyone has relied on the NDIS to provide services, that being commonwealth, state, territory and local government.
It’s become for want of a better expression an island in the oasis and what we need to do is to be really clear to build a framework where there is a disability policy system that has different layers to it, to support people in different ways.
When we talk about sustainable, I also think we need to remember that we’re talking about people. We can never lose sight of the humanity that underpins the NDIS.
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