What do you do if your child has a disability or learning difficulty and school is a constant struggle? The teacher says they are doing their best, the principal says no more can be done but you feel, strongly, that your child’s needs are not being properly met.
Advocates say pace of rollout is ‘unrealistic’ and planners are being forced to make life-changing decisions too quickly Evidence has continued to mount in recent weeks that the NDIS – seen by most in the sector as a positive and transformational reform – is struggling to cope with the extreme demands of rapid implementation.
Victoria is not seeing enough complaints about the National Disability Insurance Scheme, according to a new report. The state Disability Services Commissioner (DSC) has tabled his 2017 annual report in Victorian Parliament with statistics and information about complaints and serious incidents that occur in disability services.
A teenager who allegedly sexually assaulted a housemate several times in a disability group home posed a threat to residents for months because of authorities’ “shocking” failure to act, Victoria’s ombudsman has found.
A federal parliamentary inquiry has heard repeated criticism of the early childhood, early intervention approach being rolled out as part of the NDIS. Allied health groups and disability service providers say NDIA staff are often poorly trained, and don’t always accept advice from health professionals.
Joining Jon Faine in the studio to chat and take listeners’ calls are: Alastair McEwin – Australian Disability Discrimination Commissioner Tess Karambela – Facilitator, Kick Start Your Dreams program, Melbourne City Mission. She is in the final semester of her Social Work degree at RMIT Matthew Wright – Branch Manager, Design and Inclusion, NDIA (National Disability Insurance Agency) where he leads the … Continued
Victorian police and an independent commissioner will work more closely to investigate the abuse of disabled people after rape allegations were not reported to police.
The rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in selected sites in 2016 signified a shift in cultural views about disability. Historical views were based on a medical model derived from deficit, dysfunction and impairment. Today, we ask that building capacity, inclusion and access be the way forward for people and young children living … Continued
Getting a ticket for a preliminary final can be exhausting, especially when tickets to the public are exhausted. But spare a thought for footy fans like Sam Jackson, a Tigers supporter who competed for one of the coveted seats from an extremely uneven playing field.
The sheer hypocrisy of our government sometimes knows no bounds. On the one hand Australia lauds its signing of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. On the other, it continues to flagrantly abuse those very same conventions through its administration of the provisions of the Migration Act to preclude ANYONE with a disability … Continued
Housing for people with disability is being transformed from grants-based funding to a market-based system where people with disabilities control their own funding. This market has the potential to grow in size by around A$5 billion over the next five years in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The aims of the NDIS are laudable and rightly ambitious, aiming to support Australians with a significant and permanent disability achieve a better life through access to the supports they need. The Scheme was designed to place people with disabilities at its heart, and banked on a marketised system to deliver services, improve quality and drive innovation within the disability sector.
A 50-year-old woman with severe intellectual disabilities faces possible deportation next month and the prospect of spending the rest of her life in an Indian institution, after her mother’s visa application was rejected.
The NDIS promised choice and control but what is it really delivering? In this essay, Micheline Lee shares her experience of living with disability her whole life and how accessing the NDIS is the most confounding barrier she has faced yet.
Australia’s Disability Laws is set up based on the person with disability having to make a complaint. It is up to the person with disability to challenge discrimination when it happens. Is the constant complaint-making affecting our mental health?