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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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Safeguarding Taskforce

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:13): My question is to the Premier. What are the terms of reference for the disability task force?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:13): I don't have those with me at the moment, but broadly they are to look at the gaps that can exist and do exist in South Australia as we have made the transition from services provided mainly from a state-based system to services provided under the National Disability Insurance Agency and the NDIS. That transition has been made over an extended period of time. We first started the trial of certain cohorts back several years ago. The vast majority of people who were living with a disability, having services provided by the South Australian government, made that transition in 2018.

I think we all appreciate the general direction of this massive reform to the services provided to people living with a disability, mainly from institutionalised support to individualised funding. I think it's been broadly supported across the country. We have set up this task force to look at issues—gaps, if you like—regarding the movement from one system to the other.

I have heard some of the comments that one of the co-chairs, the Hon. Kelly Vincent, has made. She has suggested that they will be looking at issues of how somebody who is a client of the NDIA could essentially have just one carer rather than a team of carers and what the level of supervision is from the company or the NGO providing the services to supervise the work of the individual or team providing those services.

She has also highlighted that she would like to look at the broader issues associated with the education of people living with a disability about their rights. Also, of course, it has been well canvassed in the media that the task force will look at the issue regarding the Community Visitor Scheme, which was certainly in place and used extensively when the system was mainly at that state level. Of course, it still exists for some clients who remain in the state system, but the overall auditing of the system has now moved to the Quality and Safeguards Commission, which is a federal agency.

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