Tom Burton

Dr Simon Duffy warned a decade ago that the design of the national disability insurance scheme created perverse incentives, leaving it flawed from day one.

The British social policy reformer who warned a decade ago that the design of Australia’s national disability insurance scheme was flawed from the start and would be expensive and unsustainable said his worst fears have come true.

The NDIS publishes quarterly data about NDIS participant plans. A4 used these data for the analyses of NDIS costs below.

Following are annual average budget costs for autism in the NDIS from 2019 to 2023 broken down by age.

Caitlin Cassidy

Andrew Whitehouse, who joins national school funding board, calls for urgent reform amid new government negotiations

Diagnostic delay is a major concern for children and young people with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)—and also for their loved ones.

The delay is the gap between first concerns about a child's development, and their eventual diagnosis. In some cases this can be more than five years.

Sarah Basford Canales and Stephanie Convery

Chair of Actuaries Institute committee says money could go towards establishing early intervention programs for those with developmental delays