This section reports on the Australian, State and Territory governments’ assistance provided to people with disability and their carers. Performance reporting currently focuses on assistance provided by governments to people with disability via the National Disability Insurance Scheme and through specialist disability services under the National Disability Agreement, as well as the broad social and economic outcomes of people with disability and their use of mainstream services.

Objectives for services for people with disability

Disability services aim to help people with disability and their carers have an enhanced quality of life, enjoy choice and wellbeing, achieve independence, social and economic participation, and full inclusion in the community.

Under the NDIS, governments aim to achieve this objective through the provision of an NDIS which:

• enables people with disability to exercise choice and control in the pursuit of their goals and the planning and delivery of their supports
• provides reasonable and necessary supports including early intervention supports
• promotes the provision of high quality and innovative supports
• provides timely decisions on access by applicants to the Scheme.

For specialist disability services provided outside the NDIS, governments aim to achieve this objective by providing access to disability services:

• that meet the individual needs of people with disability and their carers
• that provide skills and support to people with disability to enable them to live as independently as possible
• that meet a particular standard of quality
• on the basis of relative need
• that assist families and carers in their caring role.

Governments aim to meet these objectives in an equitable and efficient manner.

Performance reporting on the NDIS is being progressively developed and introduced to the RoGS as the number of disability‑specific services provided directly by states and territories (primarily under the NDA) decreases.