A National Disability Insurance Scheme: what social work has to offer

Title: A National Disability Insurance Scheme: what social work has to offer
Creator: Fawcett, Barbara; Plath, Debbie
Relation: British Journal of Social Work Vol. 44, Issue 3, p. 747-762
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs141
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: This paper appraises key features of the recently proposed National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia and explores underpinning conceptualisations of ‘disability’, ‘autonomy’, ‘choice’ and ‘assessment’. In particular, it examines the ways in which the Scheme reconfigures a continuation of individualised payments and care package policies. These proposals can be seen to have international significance in terms of how new policy is formulated and also implemented in this controversial field. It is argued that, by utilising embedded human rights perspectives, social work practice principles and social model understandings of disability, social workers can play a crucial role in reframing the opportunities presented by key policy changes.
Subject: disability; social constructionism; insurance; self-determination; choice
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067823
Identifier: uon:18490
Identifier: ISSN:0045-3102
Language: eng
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