States and territories will need to take more responsibility for funding the NDIS, with the minister in charge warning that the program was “not sustainable” and never intended to function as a welfare scheme.
The recruitment powerhouse is making its first move into the disability services sector, helping people with disabilities find, hire and manage support workers.
The welfare of a seriously ill NDIS participant with type-1 diabetes and bipolar disorder was not checked for at least 48 hours before he collapsed and died.
The NDIS is symptomatic of Labor’s policy reforms; it is heart versus head and a failure to understand the limitations of well-intentioned schemes.
The NDIA has overseen a three-fold spending increase on contractors, recruiters and lawyers as it copes with a flood of new participants.
The agency in charge of the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been cutting funding for remote participants.
A federal government shake-up will ensure more money is provided under the NDIS for those with complex needs.
Mathias Cormann has guaranteed that a new $5bn Future Drought Fund will not drain revenue from the NDIS.
Guidelines for autism cases will be streamlined and doctor-shopping for diagnoses will be eliminated, under new reforms.
A review of the $9bn mental health funding system should not be used as an excuse for more money without reform, an expert says.
The new Social Services Minister has revealed there is “systematic work” being done to address the issues with the NDIS.
A battle worth hundreds of millions between therapists and the NDIA represents a ‘clear and present threat’ to its viability.
Tiered pricing to therapists would allow greater flexibility.
Fewer than 60 per cent of all people eligible for the NDIS are likely to be in the program by the time it reaches full rollout.
The images cramming the frames of Harrison Fischer’s first years are of a happy child distracted by commands only he could hear.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme chief ‘cannot guarantee’ specific levels of autism will gain automatic entry to the program.
The federal government has won at least one state’s backing to permanently redraw the law underpinning the $22bn scheme.
It’s often diagnosed after parents have doctor-shopped for help with behavioural problems. But this isn’t what the scheme is for.
A NSW agreement to increase its annual NDIS funding by about $120m, rising each year, will heap pressure on other states.
NSW to lift annual funding for NDIS by a further half percentage point as it becomes first state officially to sign up to full scheme.
The disabled are not at the mercy of those who know best.
Consumer choice will not work if the disabled lack the know-how and capacity to choose well.
It’s a numbers game and delivery is now problematical.
A $700m annual fund that would allow people with profound disabilities to live in the community is subject to price caps.
Not-for-profits have been doing the scheme’s work quite well for 200 years.
Severely disabled sufferers deserve help under the scheme.
A plan to alter the definition of autism could see thousands of people with substantial needs removed from the NDIS.
The scheme’s chief has replaced a deputy and two senior general managers with former staff from his time running Bankwest.
A secret plan to restrict the access of autistic people to the $22bn NDIS would prevent them from qualifying ‘automatically’.
The present structure is a bottomless pit for taxpayers.
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