• Table of Contents
• Disability Investment Group
• Executive Summary
• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – A Possible Model
• Principal Recommendation
• Summary of Other Recommendations
• Section I
• Part 1: Experience of Disability in Australia
• Part 2: Need for Change
• Section II
• Part 3: Establishing a New National Disability Insurance Scheme
• Part 4: Ensuring Income Support is Adequate
• Part 5: Improving savings and taxation incentives for privately - funded services
• Section III
• Part 6: Providing More Housing for People with Disability
• Part 7: Offering Better Employment Opportunities
• Part 8: Building Research and Best Practice
• Appendices
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix E
• Appendix F
• Appendix G
• Appendix H
• Appendix I
• Appendix J

The Way Forward – A New Disability Policy Framework For Australia

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Appendix A: Disability Investment Group Terms of Reference and Membership

Terms of Reference

• Identify international best practice in leveraging greater investment in disability support.
• Identify opportunities to increase private sector involvement and investment in the funding of disability services and related infrastructure, including new innovations to develop alternative funding sources and arrangements for people with disability and their families.
• Identify barriers to this and how they might be overcome.
• Identify current and potential avenues for philanthropic investment in disability support.
• Explore government assistance to encourage family and private investment in the provision of housing, education, employment, equipment and other support for people with disability.
• Consider, with the community and financial institutions, avenues for new products and services to assist families plan for the future of their child with a disability.
• Develop options for investment in housing for people with disability through private and shared equity.
• Develop ways to assist people with disability, their families and not-for-profit organisations to engage with the private sector to enable development of accommodation and support options.
• Identify research reforms to encourage private sector engagement in research.

Members

Ian Silk, Chief Executive, AustralianSuper (Chair)

Bruce Bonyhady, President, Philanthropy Australia, Chairman, ANZ Trustees Limited and Chairman, Yooralla

Allan Fels AO, Professor, Dean of the Australian New Zealand School of Government, and former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Bill Moss AM, Chairman, MossCapital. Founder and Chairman, FSHD Global Research Foundation

Mary Ann O'Loughlin, Executive Director, The Allen Consulting Group (until October 2008)

Kathy Townsend, Kathleen Townsend Executive Solutions Pty Ltd

John Walsh, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers

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