Foundational supports for children, and their families, carers and kin: Questionnaire

Section 1. About you

We have a few questions about you and your child or children. This helps us to understand more about your responses. Information you give us will not be shared or used by any other government service.

Section 2. General Supports - Information, advice and capacity building

This section includes questions about General Supports. These are covered in the first section of the Consultation Paper about supports for children and their families, carers and kin. It is about Information, advice and capacity building for children and families.

You can skip these questions and go directly to upload a document, audio or video file. You can also choose not to answer any question by leaving the space provided blank.

Information from the consultation paper

General Foundational Supports for children, families, carers and kin includes:

• Trusted accessible information to connect children and their families to the right supports for them – like information, advice and resources, peer support groups, or social and emotional support for parents and carers.
• Giving families and carers the tools and information they need to support their children. This could include support with setting up routines, access to short courses and to practical parent support workshops or programs.
• How easy or hard is it for you to find information about disability supports that exist to help you, your child / a child you care for?

  Very hard	Hard	Neither easy nor hard	Easy	Very easy	Prefer not to say

• What information and advice has helped you to find and access the right services, or know that you need support for your child or family?
• Who do you trust for information and advice about supports and services that might be available to help your child and family? Please rank.
  • School
  • Childcare or other early learning
  • Referrals from GPs or other health professionals (e.g. Paediatrician or allied health professional)
  • NDIS planners or local area coordinators
  • Disability Gateway
  • Carers Gateway
  • Phone lines (such as the 1800 numbers provided through the Disability Gateway site)
  • Other government websites
  • Non-government websites
  • Online platforms to find disability providers
  • Disability advocacy organisations
  • Information from community organisations in my area
  • Disability service providers
  • Talking to other people with disability and/or carers
  • Family peer or support groups
  • None
• Please tell us what makes your preferred service trustworthy and if there are any other sources you trust to get information and advice?
• What has helped to improve your ability to:
  1. advocate to get the support your child and family need?
  2. connect with and navigate services, including mainstream and community services?
  3. support your child and family to take part in everyday routines and the community?

  Please write your answer in the box provided.
• What are 3 ideas you have to help families to hear about services?

Section 3. Improving access to supports for children and families

This section covers the second section of the Consultation Paper about Targeted Supports.

Targeted supports operate between mainstream services (e.g. in areas like early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings and schools) and the specialist supports accessed through the NDIS. They might include specific supports like:

• Low intensity or periodic child and family-centred allied health supports including access to speech pathology, physiotherapy, psychology, occupational therapy or other services.
• One-on-one support for people caring for children by giving them skills and information. This could include self-advocacy skills, connecting families with supports and services, practical strategies and emotional support.

You can skip these questions and go directly to upload a document, audio or video file. You can also choose not to answer any question by leaving the space provided blank.

Section 4. How supports work together

Information from the consultation paper

Governments are thinking about how Targeted Supports for children, families, carers and kin might work together and be delivered. They will consider options to use existing services and infrastructure to deliver these supports where children live, learn and play. These services may be provided in group settings (helped by an allied health worker or a multidisciplinary team) or individually in a child’s natural environment. This shifts away from a mostly one-on-one therapy model in clinical settings, which is not seen as best practice early intervention for most children

If you don’t want to answer these questions, you can skip to the final questions.

Section 5. Other feedback