Findings on Social Policy and Society Reported by Investigators at University of Sydney (Responding To Complexity In the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme): Global Views – Social Policy and Society

2022 DEC 21 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics, Law & Government Daily -- Investigators publish new report on Global Views - Social Policy and Society. According to news reporting originating from Sydney, Australia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Personalisation in disability support funding is premised on the notion that services come together through the individual. Where people have very complex needs, many individuals and their supporters find it difficult to facilitate services themselves.”

Financial support for this research came from NSW Ministry of Health.

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Sydney, “This article examines the Integrated Service Response (ISR), an Australian response to complexity implemented during the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) roll-out. We explore its facilitation of collaboration in the context of the NDIS. Results from interviews and observation of collaboration suggest there are multiple challenges with effective inter-organisational collaboration under the NDIS, including communication between services, and the loss of previous ways of addressing complexity and crisis. Participants valued ISR as a response to complexity, including its ability to facilitate collaboration by ‘getting the right people at the table.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “While programmes such as ISR may improve inter-organisational collaboration around specific clients, broader ongoing systemic approaches are required to address system-wide issues.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Responding To Complexity In the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Social Policy and Society, 2022. Social Policy and Society can be contacted at: Cambridge Univ Press, Edinburgh Bldg, Shaftesbury Rd, CB2 8RU Cambridge, England. (Cambridge University Press - www.cambridge.org; Social Policy and Society - http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=SPS)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Jennifer Smith-Merry, University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Centre for Disability Research and Policy, Sydney Sch Hlth Sci, Sydney, Nsw, Australia.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746422000562. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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