More than 11pc of boys aged 5-7 are on the NDIS
The National Disability Insurance Scheme is on track to again exceed official participant projections as children with autism enrol in unexpectedly high numbers.
Resources
NDIS After Hours Crisis Referral Service (AHCRS)
The NDIS After Hours Crisis Referral Service (AHCRS) is a dedicated 1800 number for approved emergency services referrers to contact outside business hours when a participant aged 18 and over presents to emergency services due to a breakdown of disability-related supports.
Reasonable and Necessary: Challenging NDIS decisions: Expert advice to get the support you need
Closing date: August 10, 2023
On this episode of Reasonable & Necessary, Dr George speaks with Mitchell Skipsey from the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and NDIS participant and activist, Felice Vaiani, about NDIS appeals and what to do when your NDIS plan doesn’t meet your needs. This episode is full of lots of great advice, and important things to … Continued
Reasonable and Necessary Podcast – What to do when your NDIS plan doesn’t meet your needs.
On the new episode of the Reasonable and Necessary Podcast, Dr George Taleporos @drgeorgethecrip speaks with Mitchell Skipsey from Public Interest Advocacy Centre and NDIS participant and activist Felice Vaiani about #NDIS appeals and what to do when your plan doesn’t meet your needs.
NDIS Quarterly Reports
Data outlined in the latest Quarterly Report highlights significant progress by participants, their families, carers and wider disability networks including participants experiencing increased choice and control, opportunities to participate and engage in their communities and workplaces, make friends and spend their time as they choose. It also outlines the partnership with First Peoples Disability Network to co-design a new First Nations Strategy and action plan that reflects the goals and hopes of First Nations people with disability. This is timely with 9.9% of new participants identifying as First Nations people this quarter
The new guide for self-managers
The newly updated NDIS Your Guide to: Self-management provides straightforward directions and guidelines for self-managers to follow. Let’s recap the benefits of self-management and unpack what has changed in the new guide…
PWDA Addresses NDIS Data Breach Incident
impacted National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants, prospective participants, their families and supports as well as NDIS staff earlier this year.
NDIS participants distressed after data caught up in HWL Ebsworth breach
It’s now months after the initial attack, but some participants and their families only found out this week their data may have been compromised, sending alarm bells ringing across the disability community.
‘Mass exodus’ of disability support providers on the horizon, data suggests
National Disability Services [NDS]-commissioned research has painted a grim image for the future of the care sector, amidst the Federal Government’s commitment to cracking down on fraud and rorting.
NDIS ten Years Special
Nas Campanella looks at the successes and failures of the NDIS. Hear from those with lived experience of the scheme, plus Chair of the National Disabilities Insurance Agency Kurt Fearnley and NDIS Minister Bill Shorten. – Duration: 30 minutes
A decade on, the NDIS has had triumphs, challenges and controversies. Where to from here?
The idea for such a scheme existed since the Whitlam government in the 1970s, but only really gathered steam after Australia became one of the original state signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in 2007. Against an international backdrop of increasing personalisation of disability services, disability campaigners in Australia fought to have an individualised scheme implemented here.
What we have heard report
s from individuals and organisations who have already submitted feedback to the Review. Part A draws out the five most challenging and important issues given the Terms of Reference from Ministers and your feedback. Part B provides more detail on 10 areas identified for improvement.
‘Deeply unfair’: Godfather of the NDIS calls for major reform
When the NDIS was legislated 10 years ago, it was a world-leading reform, but cost blowouts and questions about its design and administration have plagued the scheme. Now, an ongoing review has identified 5 key areas of concern, with co-chair of the review and the godfather of the scheme, Bruce Bonyhady saying the scheme can’t operate in isolation.
People with psychosocial disability may be diverted from NDIS in future, as government forecasts 27,000 reduction in participant growth
Fewer people with psychosocial disability may be added to the NDIS in the future, as the minister flags that the government expects to divert 27,000 people to outside supports in the next four years, who would have otherwise joined the scheme.
The NDIS review has participants and people with disability on edge. These are the areas it’s most concerned about
Over its first decade, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has improved hundreds of thousands of lives across Australia. But it’s not all been smooth sailing: there have been complaints about bureaucracy, inequality, a lack of transparency around decision making and more for years.