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ArticleSocial policy & administration2021

Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID-19?

Sophie Yates, Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Massimiliano Tani

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Article in Social policy & administration, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Family and School Relationship during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Sophie YatesPublic Service Research Group, School of Business UNSW Canberra Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1912-8509
Helen DickinsonPublic Service Research Group, School of Business UNSW Canberra Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia.
Catherine SmithMelbourne Graduate School of Education University of Melbourne Melbourne Victoria Australia.
Massimiliano TaniPublic Service Research Group, School of Business UNSW Canberra Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Individualized funding schemes are designed to offer people with disability greater choice and control over the services they receive. In this research, we report on a survey of over 700 families to explore how Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supported children and young people and their families to learn remotely during COVID-19. NDIS funding to support education during the first COVID-19 lockdown period forms an important case study of the flexibility of individualized funding schemes. Our results suggest that participant experiences varied widely, with some people able to make the changes they required and others left with a significant service gap. This shows that individual funding schemes are not necessarily more flexible than traditional systems in an emergency situation-useful flexibility depends on many factors, such as clarity of information giving, all actors having a shared message, proactive support of flexibility initiatives, and participants' ability to quickly navigate a complicated system. This research also highlights problems with the interface between the NDIS and mainstream services such as education.

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carechildren and young peoplecoronavirusdisabilityearly years and schoolingeducationindividualized funding schemespersonal budgets for, and purchaser–provider relations

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PMID33362318
PMCPMC7753504

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