Choice, Equality and Good Lives in Inclusive Communities: A Roadmap for Transforming the Nova Scotia Services to Persons withDisabilities Program is a visionary 2013 document that makes the moral and ethical case for a complete reassessment of the situation of people with disabilities. It doesn't explore an economic case. After some initial enthusiasm, implementation of the roadmap ground to a halt. The last newsletter is December, 2017.
The Roadshow, as they called it, was the plan unveiled in 2016. It gave some hard-to-find numbers:
I can't find any later breakdown like this, so we're stuck looking at 2016.
Community Services Disability Support Program is responsible for 4,308 people at varying levels of support. It was budgeted $303 million in 2016. The total expenditures in DCS were $929 million, so about a third of the total. It's almost entirely in the form of direct grants to community groups or individuals. That's $70,000 for each person, a ridiculous amount of money (no DCS staff included).
In volume 3 of Public Accounts 2016, which lists every provincial expenditure, Independent Care Management clients were paid $244,464,233.40. That's probably Flex and Independent Living clients - 2,045 total, making an average of $119,542.
The maximum basic rate (room+board+-expenses) is set by DCS at $2487/month or $29,844/yr.
How you get from a reasonable $30k to $119k is a bafflement, and taxpayers deserve an explanation.
In 2010, the Auditor General did a report focused on procedures. Expenses were not mentioned
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