TY - JOUR
T1 - Where specialist and mainstream service systems collide
T2 - The National Disability Insurance Scheme in prisons
AU - Yates, Sophie
AU - Dodd, Shannon
AU - Doyle, Caroline
AU - Buick, Fiona
AU - Dickinson, Helen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Australian Journal of Public Administration published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Institute of Public Administration Australia.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - The coordination of specialist with mainstream service systems is prone to role delineation and implementation difficulties worldwide. In the case of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), this specialist/mainstream interface is complicated by federalism and funding responsibilities held by different levels of government. People with disability, especially cognitive or intellectual disability, are over-represented in Australia's prisons. Through semi-structured interviews with professionals working at the interface of disability and criminal justice, we explore some of these interface issues with regard to NDIS services (specialist) in prisons (mainstream). We find that policy permits some NDIS-funded services to be delivered inside prisons, such as transition services related to a person's disability, but in practice there is significant variation in how policy is understood and implemented, leading to exclusion and service gaps. This case study shines light on longstanding debates about service coordination across organisational and jurisdictional boundaries.
AB - The coordination of specialist with mainstream service systems is prone to role delineation and implementation difficulties worldwide. In the case of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), this specialist/mainstream interface is complicated by federalism and funding responsibilities held by different levels of government. People with disability, especially cognitive or intellectual disability, are over-represented in Australia's prisons. Through semi-structured interviews with professionals working at the interface of disability and criminal justice, we explore some of these interface issues with regard to NDIS services (specialist) in prisons (mainstream). We find that policy permits some NDIS-funded services to be delivered inside prisons, such as transition services related to a person's disability, but in practice there is significant variation in how policy is understood and implemented, leading to exclusion and service gaps. This case study shines light on longstanding debates about service coordination across organisational and jurisdictional boundaries.
KW - NDIS
KW - criminal justice system
KW - disability
KW - prison
KW - service coordination
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85136455031&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-8500.12555
DO - 10.1111/1467-8500.12555
M3 - Article
SN - 0313-6647
VL - 81
SP - 611
EP - 628
JO - Australian Journal of Public Administration
JF - Australian Journal of Public Administration
IS - 4
ER -