Study Results from University of New South Wales Update Understanding of COVID-19 (Flexibility In Individual Funding Schemes: How Well Did Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme Support Remote Learning for Students With Disability …)

2020 DEC 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Coronavirus - COVID-19. According to news reporting originating from Canberra, Australia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “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.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of New South Wales, “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.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This research also highlights problems with the interface between the NDIS and mainstream services such as education.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Flexibility In Individual Funding Schemes: How Well Did Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme Support Remote Learning for Students With Disability During Covid-19? Social Policy & Administration, 2020. Social Policy & Administration can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Social Policy & Administration - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9515)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Sophie Yates, University of New South Wales, School of Business, Publ Serv Res Grp, Canberra, Act, Australia. Additional authors for this research include Helen Dickinson, Massimiliano Tani and Catherine Smith.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12670. 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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