A Brief Overview About NDIS

In 2010, the Australian Government's Productivity Commission launched a public inquiry into the long-term care and support system for people with disabilities. Thus begins the path to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which was officially launched in 2016. Interchange has sought from the beginning to support this system and its interest in promoting the inclusion of the Australian community. Interchange CEO Justin O'Meara Smith said: "The stock market is ready, willing and able to do our part to return to the founding and collaborative principles of NDIS."

In this sense, Interchange provides some insight into NDIS language translation. With each new design, new concepts emerge and their definitions are not always translated immediately. As a registered NDIS service provider, Interchange has the expertise to translate some of them.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme, or NDIS, is a system created by the Australian Government to help people with disabilities access services and activities. Together with the NDIS representative, the affected person draws up a plan to obtain the necessary assistance in achieving personal goals. This includes the current financing of the aid. The department that manages NDIS is the National Disability Insurance Agency or NDIA. The full scheme is not yet available to everyone in Australia but will be launched by 2020. From July 2018, the Australian Capital, New South Wales, and South Australia will have access to the full scheme. In July 2019, it is planned to make the program available in Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland, and the Northern Territory. While Western Australia will not have full access until July 2020, the Perth Hills trial site has been in operation since 2014. In 2017, it was extended to several areas of local government. As an NDIS-registered service provider, Interchange has partnered with NDIS to provide community support.

NDIS is built on the principle of insurance. This means that NDIS uses a different approach from the short-term, benefits-based approach of the previous state and territorial government approach. In such models, many participants have only limited selection or growth. Instead, the NDIS has taken a long-term approach, which aims to launch support promptly and work on the personal goals of each participant and improve the quality of life in the long term. NDIS finances three types of support through core, capacity building, and capital budgets. The core budget provides direct support for day-to-day activities such as home care. The capacity building budget provides support to people with disabilities in building skills for the future. Capital budget support includes those who help build independence and skills, such as electronic calendars or custom cutlery.

NDIS, with the support of Interchange and other service providers registered with NDIS, provides the ongoing support needed by people with disabilities. Through this program, people with disabilities are already armed with many opportunities and we hope that these opportunities will continue to increase.