NDIS workforce implications: the NSW context

Ageing, Disability and Homecare (ADHC) INDUSTRIAL REPORT March 2014           Introduction This report is intended to provide PSA members with an overview of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NSW Enabling) legislation and its industrial implications for the staff of Ageing, Disability and Home Care. It is not a campaign update. The PSA is deeply opposed to the privatisation of publically delivered…

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FACS Localisation Industrial Bulletin - December 2013

Post-Localisation Consultative Arrangements still in dispute FACS and the PSA are yet to agree on new consultative arrangements following the September launch of the new 15 district ‘localisation’ structure. The PSA was back in the NSW IRC on Friday, 6 December in an effort to finalise new consultative arrangements that reflect the Department’s new operating environment. Under FACS’s proposal the Department would abolish state-wide divisional…

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Second Newcastle NDIS forum

Premier Barry O’Farrell is using the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as a Trojan horse to cut the choice and quality of services available to support people with a disability and their families in NSW. In response, the PSA is holding a second forum in Newcastle on 4 December at Panthers. The first took place on 10 October in response to growing…

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Fears NSW using NDIS deal to avoid disability funding, close residential care centres - ABC News

By Norman Hermant and Alison Branley Rob Burns remembers the day a professor told him to take his intellectually disabled son to an institution and leave him there. The now-closed institution in Newcastle was so bleak that during the first three months Mr Burns would not let his wife and daughters visit. More than 50 years later his son Wayne is still in full-time residential…

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Family and Community Services NDIS Bulletin 4

The Director General has recently written to advise that formal consultation on the NDIS has commenced. This is some 11 months after the NSW Government signed a formal agreement with the Commonwealth to privatise Disability Services in NSW by 2018, and only after legislation was tabled in the NSW Parliament to facilitate this change. It is misleading to suggest that FACS and the NSW Government…

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