Majella Ryan - TDSA

Working together to
create inclusive
Queensland communities
Conference 2011
Brisbane International Virginia,
18 & 19 August 2011

Changing landscape
• Key drivers – national and state
– Population growth – ageing of the population
– ageing workforce
– unmet need
– changing family structures
– rising costs
– changing expectations

Changing landscape (cont)
– Productivity Commission inquiries
• Caring for Older Australians
• Disability Care and Support
– National Health Reform Agreement

National Health Reform Agreement
• Signed this month
• Contains changes to responsibilities for aged care
and disability services
• Commitment to minimising impact on client services
and for service providers
• Commitment to continue delivery of community care
services
• Opportunities to improve both systems

Creating a more inclusive Queensland
• Queensland Government
– Toward Q2 priorities – strong, green, smart, healthy and fair
– Queensland Compact
• Department of Communities
– Strategic Plan 2011-15
• Inclusive communities
• Improving access to services
• Improving delivery of Disability Services
– 10 Year Plan for supporting Queenslanders with a disability

10 Year Plan for supporting
Queenslanders with a disability
• Informed by extensive consultation
• Framed by United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons
with a Disability and National Disability Strategy
• A 10 year blueprint for change
• Priorities to improve access and participation across the whole
service system.
• Transport one of many areas e.g. health, housing, education,
employment, arts and culture.

Transport – a key issue
• Important to everyone for access to services
• Many players – private, public, community
• Gaps and unmet transport needs
• No one player can provide all the answers

Home and Community Care and
transport
• 18 funded service types, including transport
• 2010-11 - $528.7 million for Home and Community
Care Services. Over $27 million for 1.2 million trips
• 2011-12 funding likely to be focussed on service
continuity and transition support
• Transport - focussed on access to local community,
not patient transport. Alternative options are
available for patient transport

Transport – future directions
• The keys - collaboration and innovation
• Whole of community approach – not only government
• Service models – sustainable, flexible
• Examples - Gold Coast Volunteering, LANDS,
Townsville project

Contact Us
Further information can be found at the Australian
Government yourHealth website
www.yourhealth.gov.au
Or
The Department of Communities website
www.communities.qld.gov.au

Thank You
Majella Ryan
Executive Director
Community Care Programs & Reform
Disability and Community Care Services
Department of Communities

Questions