children with special needs
Posted by: pammy
15th Aug 2011 01:25pm
parental support for parents with live with children who have special needs.
This can put so much stress and pressure on family, relationships, Schools, support groups. Where is the government in all of this with regard to funding to help ??
Parsimony
- 2nd May 2014 06:38pm
If you listen to the Commission of Audit and our PM then the Govt is backing away at a great rate.
The plan is to slow the roll out of the NDIS thereby ensuring that there are more kids not getting their required equipment and wary intervention and more families breaking down.
The folly of slowing the roll out is that this will increase the lifetime cost of care for many people and families. Some of the kids with a disability who have been involved in a family breakdown are now costing more than $250,000 a year to support. The NDIS is now averaging $34,000 a year per person to support.
Doesn't take Einstein to do the sums there but you can bet that the NDIS roll out will be slowed.
And just to show how much is being spun about "the budget emergency" Saul Eastlake - an economist who has been around for a long time pointed out this. Australia's debt to its total production each year (debt to GDP) is currently 14% and will rise to 17%.
Compared that 17% figure to other developed countries economies where the Average is 74%, make you think.
I am not saying we should do nothing but I am not sure running around saying the sky is falling and we need to cut almost everything is needed.
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