The National Disability Insurance Scheme moves away from a 'one-size-fits-all' government system to create a disability sector in which people with disability make choices about the life they want to live. Fundamental to the design of the NDIS is that a single level of government takes responsibility for ensuring that people with disability receive the supports they need to live their lives with dignity and respect.

Under the NDIS, the National Disability Insurance Agency will have responsibility to support people with disability to plan for their futures, to provide the resourcing they need to meet the costs of their reasonable and necessary supports, and to support them in accessing services that are able to meet those needs.

The Government will be contributing over $3.1 billion each year to the NDIS. The Government is a partner in the implementation of the scheme and the Minister for Disability Services will remain responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Scheme within New South Wales, as do colleagues in other jurisdictions.

Following full rollout of the NDIS from 2018, the Government will not provide specialist disability services or basic community care services, with the focus being to enhance service capacity and diversify the non-government sector to build on the more than 60 per cent of services currently delivered by non government organisations to people with disability, their families and carers in New South Wales. That said, we have a responsibility to ensure we only transfer support arrangements for people when there are appropriate arrangements in place for them.

Post the full implementation of the NDIS across New South Wales, the Government will continue as a partner in the funding and governance of the NDIS. All governments also acknowledge that not all supports and responses for people with disability can or should be delivered through the NDIS. Communities and governments continue to have responsibility for promoting inclusion and undertaking appropriate reasonable adjustment to ensure people with disability can equitably access the full range of services and supports available to all members of the community.