PWD believes the Draft Report is a great step forward int he process to introduce a funded National Scheme which would provide personal support for people with disabilities on an entitlements basis. However in building a new system we have…
Author: People with Disability Australia (page 39)
Joint Submission NEDA And PWDA: Productivity Commission Inquiry Into Disability Care And Support
This submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry which formed an early step in the process toward the creation of a National Disability Insurance Scheme recommends that the NDIS be extended to asylum seekers and persons granted refugee status, all children…
Inquiry Into The Commonwealth Commissioner For Children And Young People Bill 2010
Our strong support over many years for the establishment of a national Commissioner for Children and Young People is based on our individual and systemic advocacy undertaken with and on behalf of children and young people with disability. PWD has…
Inquiry Into Services Provided Or Funded By Ageing, Disability And Home Care
August 2010 PWD recommends that Stronger Together 2 and a revised Better Together must ensure there are mechanisms for enabling people with disability and their representative organisations can actively and equally participate in development, monitoring and review of laws, policies…
Productivity Commission Inquiry Into Long Term Disability Care And Support
The Australian Government has asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a public inquiry into a long-term disability care and support scheme which will become the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This Submission uses the experience and strength of PWD to provide…
Public Consultation On Proposed Youth And Community Services Regulation
July 2010 Currently no policy, procedure or guideline exists to provide guidance to the Licensees/Licensed Managers or staff of licensed boarding houses on the meaning and application of the YACS Act, licence conditions and Regulations, or on specific issues of…
Summary Submission: Productivity Commission Inquiry On Disability Care And Support
The PWD position on the proposal for the delivery of a new disability care and support scheme that operates by directing resources at eligible individuals with disability will be articulated by a set of principles, which will also tie the…
Stronger Together Consultation
This review of Stronger Together provides a timely opportunity to ensure that CRPD is the overarching framework for Stronger Together. Using the CRPD as a framework would provide surety that the NSW Government was meeting its human rights obligations in…
Review Of The National Standards For Disability Services
A primary purpose of the Standards and the Objectives and Principles of the Disability Services Act was to move towards a service system in which people with disability were at the centre and could access the elements of care and…
Inquiry Into The Provision Of Education To Students With A Disability Or Special Needs
PWD welcomes the NSW Legislative Council’s General Purpose Standing Committee No. 2 Inquiry into the Provision of Education for Students with a Disability or Special Needs. PWD will address some longstanding issues and concerns that PWD has about the NSW…