What did we learn from the NDDA Pilot?

Important things that affect the NDDA

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We learned about important things that will affect the NDDA in the future.

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We learned it can take at least 12 months for governments to:

  • say it’s okay to do a project
  • find, use and share data
  • get the data to the people who do the research.

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We also learned there are lots of steps that need to be done again each time data is used.

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This is because it takes a long time to make a document that says it’s okay for people to share and link data.

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This makes it hard for governments to:

  • use data to make decisions
  • make services better.

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We learned we need different ways to get data about people with disability that everyone agrees with.

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We learned we must work with people with disability to look at things that are important to them.

We made a plan for how governments can support new ways to:

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  • get data about people with disability

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  • use data to get better outcomes for people with disability.

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We will share this plan when the NDDA is agreed between governments.

Goals we reached

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We reached some important goals during the NDDA pilot.

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For the first time, different governments shared more data about people with disability than ever before.

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For the first time, we could get data about the services people with disability use.

This includes:

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  • learning and training

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  • health services

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  • housing services that support people with disability where they live

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  • services that support people with disability in the justice system.

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The justice system includes:

  • police
  • the courts
  • the law
  • prisons.

Testing different ways of getting data

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Each test case looked at different ways to:

  • link data
  • use data.

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This means we can work out how to make the ways we link data better.

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It also means organisations are more likely to say yes to our new way of:

  • sharing data
  • linking data.

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We faced some challenges when we got different data from each test case.

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One of these challenges was how well our technology worked to:

  • link the data
  • analyse the data – work out what it means.

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This means we will need to make our technology better so it can handle lots of data.

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Using all types of data about people with disability gives us a good understanding of all people with disability.

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Each test case used a different way to tell if someone was a person with disability.

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This means we could look at the different ways to tell if someone was a person with disability and see what:

  • worked well
  • could be better.