A Melbourne school for children with disabilities says its will soon lose funding for its support staff because of a funding stoush between the Victorian and Federal governments.
He said many of St Paul's students could not attend school without the assistance of classroom support workers.The Victorian Minister for Disability, Luke Donnellan, declined an interview with the ABC.
In a statement he said the Commonwealth was now responsible for disability funding through the National Disability Insurance Agency . "The disability funding previously available to the school is now provided through their pupil's individual NDIA plans, this is the same for all Victorian disability service providers, and St Paul's College is currently the only school in Victoria still receiving disability supports through DHHS .""We've provided a number of extensions for St Paul's College to update their business model in order to leverage funding from the Commonwealth and the NDIA.
"Changing our 'business model' as DHHS describes it, is simply a euphemism for cutting the very services that our students can't access anywhere else," the Catholic body said.The Federal Government told the ABC state and territory governments committed to providing funding for personal care to schools for children with disabilities at a Council of Australian Governments meeting in 2018.
"States and territories are responsible for the delivery of these supports until 31 December 2023, and claim discounts to their NDIS funding contribution for doing so," a Federal Department of Community Services spokesperson said.
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