"Beyond Julia Gillard . A glimpse of a future in which NDIS and Gonski support optimizing children's abilities" - Glenn Rappensberg
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“Beyond Julia Gillard…. A glimpse of a
future in which NDIS and Gonski support
optimizing children’s abilities”
Glenn Rappensberg
Beyond Julia…..
We’re there already!
National Disability Insurance
Scheme (NDIS) is here
Gonski reforms in law
Australian kids…. a snapshot
Australian kids…a snapshot
• Death rate for children 1-14 years
is 13 per 100,000
Australian kids- a snapshot
Similar trend as for infant mortality
Australian kids-a snapshot
Children with a disability
Australian kids- a snapshot
• An estimated 7% of Australia’s
children have a disability.
• 30% more indigenous kids require
assistance
Australian kids- a snapshot
• 25% of children are
developmentally vulnerable on one
or more domains of the Australian
Early Development Index
Optimising a child’s abilities
“To optimise”…..
• “To make the best”
• “To make as perfect or as effective as possible”
• “To make as perfect, effective or functional as
possible”“Abilities” • Quality or a state of being able • Competence in doing • Skill • Natural aptitude or acquired proficiency
What does optimising a child’s
abilities have to do with NDIS and
Gonski?Disability & Education sectors
• Disability: Reliance on the charitable sector
• Escalating demand
• Constrained funding
• Funding has been the same irrespective of number of children with
additional needs affected, or the complexities of their needs
• Funding has not been individual child focused
• Service providers and schools have had to develop ways to minimise the
demands on them
• Programmatic approaches as determined by the service provider,
education provider/department…not by the needs of the childWhat is the NDIS? NDIS stands for National Disability Insurance Scheme…now termed “DisabilityCare Australia” Arisen out of the recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s report 2011. The Productivity Commission: the Australian Government’s independent research and advisory body on a range of economic, social and environmental issues affecting the welfare of Australians.
Productivity Commission report “The current disability support system is underfunded, unfair, fragmented, and inefficient. It gives people with a disability little choice, no certainty of access to appropriate supports and little scope to participate in the community……”
DisabilityCare Australia
• Providing information and referrals
• Support to access community services and activities
• Personal plans and supports over a lifetime
www.disabilitycareaustralia.gov.auGonski Review “real equality of opportunity for our children in education” • too little investment in schools, inefficient distribution of money, effective or fair • falling performance over last 10 years compared to other countries • students in disadvantaged areas up to 3 years behind those of the same age who live in wealthy areas • one in seven 15 year olds does not have basis reading skills • funding according to the needs of students
NDIS and Gonski
Disability and education funding reform themes:
Dual elements
• Disability: additional supports will be provided for children with additional
needs likely to be:
o permanent
o significant
o or responsive to early intervention
• Education: additional supports for those with additional needs: gifted, kids
with disability, regionality, ethnicity, disadvantage
o no longer only about inclusive access
o supporting every child to achieve their best potential, irrespective of
ability and circumstancesImplementation: NDIS
• Commenced in SA for children 0-2 years on 1 July 2013.
o 3 years October
o 4 years January 2014
o 5 years April
o 6-13 years July
o 14 years July 2015
• Operational detail emergingImplementation: Gonski January 2018 : • Each school will be funded based on the number of children • Additional funding..loadings for children with additional needs to enable them to reach their potential…NOT only access • Tiers of loadings Operational detail yet to be known
Outcomes Both funding mechanisms reference connecting funding to outcomes and not just outputs Implications for service providers in the child development, health, disability and education sectors: Not about the provision of a quantum of speech pathology or psychology sessions for a child with an intellectual or other disability, but about their impact on a child’s functionality across life domains, including intellectual, cognitive, social development…and that this will be purchased, by choice of the parent or school…a competitive market place
Outcomes How will a service provider and a school demonstrate these impacts? Opportunities for HDA?
NDIS and Gonski challenges Rhetoric is: • Individual child • Achievement of best potential • Prevention of future needs • Holistic The choices of parents and schools ultimately will involve service/support selection Will the parent/school value the evidence-based team-around-the-child approach so important in fostering a child’s full spectrum of abilities? Will it be reflected in their purchasing patterns?
NDIS and Gonski Rhetoric has been “uncapped” funding: Will this occur in reality? NDIS development …will it be agile and robust enough to support, via early intervention, sufficient intensity to capitalise on the neuro-plastic child brain throughout the phases of child development and associated life transitions? Gonski…will loadings for children be sensitive to the complexity associated with a child’s evolving additional needs throughout their childhood?
School children 2014-2018 • NDIS: 0-5 year olds transition 2013-2014 • 6-13 year olds 2014-2015 • Gonski: January 2018 What will the funding environment be in the years: 2014-2018?
School children 2014-2018
• NDIS will not fund therapy in schools for the purposes of a child
accessing the curriculum…..
“an Education sector responsibility”
• Education sector does not/minimally funds therapy in schools in SA
• Disability service providers, previously grant-funded, but now on a
fee-for-service basis, will no longer provide for freeGonski and NDIS Potential for environment of: • children being at the centre of care and support, and the optimisation of their abilities • recognition of criticality of parenting role Will the transactional models of engagement foster: • communities supporting families? • practitioners as partners…or purely a supplier?
Gonski reforms: embryo NDIS: a baby of only a few days
Novita 75 year history ……transformational change is underway • building on the best available literature evidence and research into child development, rehabilitation, neuro-science, functional and intellectual skill development • children with any kind of disability, including intellectual disability
Novita: our purpose
“Enabling children and young people to discover and reach their
potential every day”More information? 1 300 NOVITA www.novita.org.au
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