‘Quick and dirty’ NDIS review faces backlash from disability advocates

By bobb |
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Stephen Lunn

A “quick and dirty” review of the $35bn-a-year National Disability ­Insurance Scheme will not ­address its longstanding problems in time to meet national cabinet’s hard cost-control targets set for three years from now, advocates have warned, signalling a fresh battle over its future.

Actuarial student's issues with autism

By convenor |

An actuarial student at the ANU has been writing adversely about autism and the NDIS. 

A4 expressed concerns that some of the mainstream media was linking her work to the NDIS. The NDIS indicated that

She does not represent the views of the agency and we are in contact with her to ensure she is clear in any future work with ANU that her views are her own.

A4's communication with the NDIS can be seen below.

 

Bloated NDIS encourages providers to keep children in care: experts

By bobb |

Tom Burton

Governments need to stop encouraging private providers to find repeat customers in the care sector and make a paradigm shift to a model that builds in support across the disability, aged care and rehabilitation sectors, social policy experts say.

A new paper from the Actuaries Institute said care economy models that sought to create a private marketplace of services which governments fund, meant there was little incentive to get people off publicly funded support.

There's still time to have your say in the NDIS Review

By convenor |
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Closed 15/9/2023

Later inputs (until 23/10/2023) will inform the National Autism Strategy.

We recognise that there are many things that compete for your time so if you wanted to have a say you still can. If you have had a say but realised you wanted to add something more than please do so.

This survey uses a 0-10 scale and if you want to add free text you can. You can answer one topic or many. It is up to you. The survey is available at: 

NDIS future depends on states providing more mainstream disability support: Bruce Bonyhady

By bobb |
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Stephen Lunn

The future of the National Disability Insurance Scheme depends on state and local governments stepping up to provide community-wide services for the millions of Australians with disability who don’t qualify for the scheme, the head of the NDIS review warns.

This is particularly so for children with developmental concerns and delay, who should be receiving “foundational supports” through maternal and child health services, early childhood education and schools, Bruce Bonyhady said.

National Disability Insurance Agency accused of ‘failing’ young children with autism

By bobb |
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Stephanie Convery

Committee hears every family Autism Partnerships Australia worked with who challenged their NDIS funding rejection was eventually approved for intensive support

The National Disability Insurance Agency is failing young children severely affected by autism by rejecting their claims for intensive support funding only to do an about-face after families have spent months in a lengthy, expensive tribunal process, a parliamentary committee has heard.

Reports provided to the National Autism Strategy (NAS)

By convenor |

As the NAS got underway, A4 provided several reports (see below).

The Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia report describes numerous datasets relating to autism. Australia has several national datasets that include population data relating to people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. These show diagnosis rates over time, by age, etc. Some of the data is quite detailed.

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