General supports: Questionnaire

Thank you for your interest in this questionnaire about General Supports.

Governments are working together to design and deliver additional supports in the community. These are known as Foundational Supports.

These are specific supports that are additional to mainstream services and supports accessed through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). These supports will help people with disability, and their families, carers and kin in a number of important areas that we know will make a big difference.

This questionnaire is about General Supports. There will be future opportunities to have your say about other types of Foundational Supports in the future.

General Supports focus on:

• information and advice
• self-advocacy
• peer supports
• capacity building

In relation to these areas, we want to know what types of supports are most helpful and what supports you think are needed most.

We suggest you refer to the General Supports Consultation Paper [PDF 1.3 MB] or [WORD 979 kB] when you are completing this questionnaire. Some information from the paper is included in the introduction to the questions.

An Easy Read [PDF 4.1 MB] or [Word 40 kB] version of the paper is also available. If you would like a copy of this emailed or sent to you by post, please contact foundational.supports@dss.gov.au

Completing this questionnaire

You can use this online questionnaire form to answer a series of guided questions.

You may prefer to write down your answers in a document or record a voice message or video to answer these questions. You can attach documents, or audio or video files if you want to at the end of this form.

Or you can email any information to us at foundational.supports@dss.gov.au and this will be treated as a submission.

Instructions

When completing the questionnaire you will be asked different kinds of questions:

1. Questions about yourself as an individual or the organisation you represent.
2. Questions to help Governments consider what General Supports need to include. You can skip questions or leave them blank.

If you don’t want to answer questions, you can skip to upload a document or audio or video file.

Privacy

We are not collecting names or personal information of individuals.

If you respond as an organisation, you may provide the name of the organisation.

We have developed a Privacy Collection Notice regarding this consultation. It provides information about how we handle the information we collect as part of this consultation. You can read the Privacy Collection Notice regarding this consultation.

If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please email Foundational.Supports@dss.gov.au.

If you need support

If participating in this consultation raises any concerns or you feel distressed we encourage you to access the Help and Support page.

If you require support to access the Consultation Paper, including paper copies or telephone assistance, please email Foundational.Supports@dss.gov.au

If you require translation services you can contact Non-English speakers | Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS National).

If you want more information about other ways to engage, please email The Social Deck at foundationalsupports@thesocialdeck.com