The Samuel Morris Foundation is one of the organisations supporting the push for a National Disability Insurance Scheme.
One of the objectives is to see individual case funding which is individually controlled. This model has been in use in in some jurisdictions for a while.
The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs recenty published a paper by Fishcer et al on the Effectiveness of Individual funding approaches for disability support.
Not surprisingly the outcomes of moving to individual funding were generally positive, although as also expected there are concerns for disabled people and their family/carers about the future as parents/care-givers age.
The Samuel Morris Foundation fully supports the introduction of individualised case funding and giving the control of services to the disabled people and their families. Increased choice and control over the services which can be accessed will force improvements in services and make services directly responsible to and accountable to the people that they exist to serve.
The full report can be found HERE
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