Posted February 26, 2024
This article is a part of a series exploring the inner details of the NDIS Review recommendations and there have been few as controversial as mandatory registration. Recommendation 17 of the NDIS Review’s Final Report details a proposal for a new risk-proportionate model of regulation. This intends to increase the visibility of the NDIS market … Continued
Posted November 3, 2023
Flinders University has launched its supported decision-making toolkit and practical resources website for people with disability and the people who support them.
Posted May 12, 2023
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants will have greater support to make their own decisions about their NDIS journey, with the release of the new Supported Decision Making Policy. This Policy, a result of one of the Agency’s co-design projects, will support and empower participants to take control over this part of their lives.
Posted May 5, 2023
The Supported Decision Making Policy takes a rights-based approach to assist participants to make decisions in the NDIS, while building the skills and knowledge of decision supporters, NDIA staff and partners.
Posted February 27, 2023
Children with disability have a human right to participate in decisions about their lives. Parents, carers, educators, families and practitioners have a clear role to play in providing the support children need to live lives that reflect their will and preference. This article reflects on the role supported decision-making mechanisms can play in the lives of children with disability.
Posted February 17, 2023
Sammy, who has intellectual disability, talks about the relationship she has with her partner Ben. She talks about how they make decisions together and the role of her parents in supporting her.
Posted January 31, 2023
Supported decision-making needs to be implemented across all sectors to ensure people with cognitive disability are empowered to make their own choices, says a new report commissioned by the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.
Posted June 3, 2022
The world of NDIS nominees and decision making is complex. If you are scratching your head a bit, wondering who can do what, you’re not alone. The first thing to note is that not every NDIS participant requires a nominee. People are presumed to have the capacity to make decisions that affect their own lives, so in most cases, participants will make their own decisions in their dealings with the NDIS – with support when required.
Posted April 25, 2022
The decision could be about a financial, health, legal, lifestyle, work related or other matter and the support is important because it gives people with disability choice and control over their lives.
Posted April 8, 2022
If you’re 18 or older, you have the right to make decisions about your business with the NDIS. If you’re not able to make decisions, even with support, you will need representative decision-making. The person undertaking this role is called a nominee and they do this voluntarily. The guidelines provide consistency and transparency about how nominee decisions are made and explain the nominee roles and responsibilities. They also provide information about agency-initiated appointments
Posted October 15, 2021
I have had the opportunity to access a wide variety of services during my life. The quality that differentiates the best from the rest is the provider’s ability to empower me to make my own choices and not assume that they should take on that responsibility.
Posted August 17, 2021
Does friendship between support workers and people with disability violate professional boundaries, endanger the working relationship, and unwittingly contribute to social isolation? Or is it a positive, natural by-product of compatible people spending a lot of time together?
Posted July 2, 2021
Being able to participate in making decisions is a basic human right. The foundation of current approaches to providing support for decision making are that everyone has the right to participate in decision making.
People with cognitive disabilities, particularly those with intellectual disabilities or acquired brain injury, are likely to need support to make some decisions about their lives. This course was designed for supporters of people with intellectual disabilities and people with acquired brain injury. Supporters include: frontline managers, disability support workers, team leaders, clinicians, friends, spouses, parents and other family members. It can also be used by case coordinators, case managers, local area coordinators and ability linkers.
Posted June 28, 2021
This guide has been created to help you put in place some safeguards to ensure the person with disability you care for is properly provided for, if something were to happen to you. It outlines actions carers can take now to ensure safeguards are in place, should the time come when they are no longer able to care for the person with disability.
Posted March 4, 2021
Advocates stand alongside the person with disability to make sure that their voices are heard in all matters that affect them. However, skilling up people with disabilities to utilise choice and control, takes time and is not currently recognised under current advocacy funding models. Circles of Support are a process where intentional networks of people are built around a person with disability to assist them in the creation of a good life in community and support their decision making through developing trusted relationships. Teresa Micallef is responsible for Building Community Networks at Belonging Matters. In this session, she shares her experience of the Circles of Support initiative including the positive outcomes for all involved in promoting decision making support, as well as the limitations and challenges she encounters.