Say No to Forced NDIS Assessments
A press release by Craig Wallace.
MEDIA RELEASE:
SNAP ACTION: SAY NO TO FORCED NDIS ASSESSMENTS
National Disability Insurance Scheme participants around Australia are taking part in a snap action from 12 noon tomorrow Friday 11 September 2020 calling on the Federal Government to scrap a controversial plan to force participants in the NDIS to undergo forced independent assessments. The action includes a physically distanced vigil at the Canberra office while participants conduct mock assessments online. Over 500 people are supporting various COVIDsafe actions.
Craig Wallace an NDIS participant and spokesperson for the snap action said: “Two weeks ago Government announced these mandatory assessments. While Government hasn’t come clean on all the details, public material from the NDIS talks about point in time independent assessments measuring ‘capabilities not disabilities’. We do know they are using functional capacity tools and will be based on an observation of a person at a point in time by outsourced people we don’t know.'
“People with disability should not have to be observed like animals in a human zoo or crawl on our hands and knees for supports and we make that clear tomorrow.
“This is a bad policy and the Minister Robert needs to withdraw the tender, go back to the drawing board and start again.
“This approach doesn’t address real problems including a shortage of quality experts with good knowledge who can travel with us to help access the right therapies and supports. We should not be afraid of losing supports as we get to critical life stages.
“It diverts resources and energy to a fake problem – a belief that people are on the scheme who don’t deserve to be. Participant numbers have been less than expected with an underspend. The real problem is abuse at the hands of providers.
“They move the scheme from a social model to a medical model. We are the best people to decide needs along with the allied health people we work with everyday. It is impossible to understand the barriers, stigmas and attitudes that people with disabilities face during a one-time functional assessment. This is particularly bad for people with disabilities like autism or cognitive which may change from day to day.
“The Administrative Appeals Tribunal also found it to be unsound with a recent decision on the NDIA’s use of an assessor confirming ‘this type of therapist is not appropriately qualified’ and that the observations of participants themselves are more accurate.
“This is poorly timed and bad policy. Nine years ago in August 2011 the Productivity Commission said supports should be determined by an independent, forward-looking assessment process by the NDIA, rather than people’s current service use. Back then we had a guarantee that no one would be worse off or would lose supports. Why are we doing it now, in a pandemic, and where is that guarantee?
“Instead these “capability” based assessments seem designed to remove people from the Scheme and the process mentions people leaving NDIS.
“The more recent Tune Report also cautiously recommended assessments but with many caveats[1] and only after extensive consultation with participants, the disability sector, service providers and the NDIA workforce but this has not occurred and a narrow evaluation of a pilot of these assessments has not seen the light of day. Dispute this they have charged ahead and actually tendered for assessors.
“Our action responds to building anger and frustration at the lack of real co-design and representation by disabled people in the scheme’s management, a lacklustre response to COVID19, ongoing issues with pricing, delays in receiving assistance and an inexorable drift away from the rights based person centred scheme with choice and control that we all signed up to”, Mr Wallace concluded.
MEDIA: Craig Wallace 0408 135 796
Online actions can be followed on #NDISCRAWL and throughout the day on the event page https://facebook.com/events/s/ndis-crawl-say-no-to-external-/2750358911906555/?ti=icl
MEDIA RELEASE:
SNAP ACTION: SAY NO TO FORCED NDIS ASSESSMENTS
National Disability Insurance Scheme participants around Australia are taking part in a snap action from 12 noon tomorrow Friday 11 September 2020 calling on the Federal Government to scrap a controversial plan to force participants in the NDIS to undergo forced independent assessments. The action includes a physically distanced vigil at the Canberra office while participants conduct mock assessments online. Over 500 people are supporting various COVIDsafe actions.
Craig Wallace an NDIS participant and spokesperson for the snap action said: “Two weeks ago Government announced these mandatory assessments. While Government hasn’t come clean on all the details, public material from the NDIS talks about point in time independent assessments measuring ‘capabilities not disabilities’. We do know they are using functional capacity tools and will be based on an observation of a person at a point in time by outsourced people we don’t know.'
“People with disability should not have to be observed like animals in a human zoo or crawl on our hands and knees for supports and we make that clear tomorrow.
“This is a bad policy and the Minister Robert needs to withdraw the tender, go back to the drawing board and start again.
“This approach doesn’t address real problems including a shortage of quality experts with good knowledge who can travel with us to help access the right therapies and supports. We should not be afraid of losing supports as we get to critical life stages.
“It diverts resources and energy to a fake problem – a belief that people are on the scheme who don’t deserve to be. Participant numbers have been less than expected with an underspend. The real problem is abuse at the hands of providers.
“They move the scheme from a social model to a medical model. We are the best people to decide needs along with the allied health people we work with everyday. It is impossible to understand the barriers, stigmas and attitudes that people with disabilities face during a one-time functional assessment. This is particularly bad for people with disabilities like autism or cognitive which may change from day to day.
“The Administrative Appeals Tribunal also found it to be unsound with a recent decision on the NDIA’s use of an assessor confirming ‘this type of therapist is not appropriately qualified’ and that the observations of participants themselves are more accurate.
“This is poorly timed and bad policy. Nine years ago in August 2011 the Productivity Commission said supports should be determined by an independent, forward-looking assessment process by the NDIA, rather than people’s current service use. Back then we had a guarantee that no one would be worse off or would lose supports. Why are we doing it now, in a pandemic, and where is that guarantee?
“Instead these “capability” based assessments seem designed to remove people from the Scheme and the process mentions people leaving NDIS.
“The more recent Tune Report also cautiously recommended assessments but with many caveats[1] and only after extensive consultation with participants, the disability sector, service providers and the NDIA workforce but this has not occurred and a narrow evaluation of a pilot of these assessments has not seen the light of day. Dispute this they have charged ahead and actually tendered for assessors.
“Our action responds to building anger and frustration at the lack of real co-design and representation by disabled people in the scheme’s management, a lacklustre response to COVID19, ongoing issues with pricing, delays in receiving assistance and an inexorable drift away from the rights based person centred scheme with choice and control that we all signed up to”, Mr Wallace concluded.
MEDIA: Craig Wallace 0408 135 796
@CraigWtweets
MEDIA EVENTS:
Mr Wallace will be joining other NDIS participants at a small physically distanced vigil at 212 Northbourne Ave Braddon ACT from 12 noon Friday 11 September 2020.
MEDIA EVENTS:
Mr Wallace will be joining other NDIS participants at a small physically distanced vigil at 212 Northbourne Ave Braddon ACT from 12 noon Friday 11 September 2020.
Online actions can be followed on #NDISCRAWL and throughout the day on the event page https://facebook.com/events/s/ndis-crawl-say-no-to-external-/2750358911906555/?ti=icl
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