Your NDIS PLAN
With the help of participants – the NDIS has created the plan implementation guides. It has useful links, guides and resources you told us you needed to start using your NDIS plan.
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Making the NDIS better together
The NDIS is currently working on the 2023 Federal Budget reforms with:
- disability representatives
- independent advisers
- NDIS participants.
This work will be expanded over time to include NDIS Review outcomes once governments have considered the recommendations. People with disability will help deliver reforms.
Our focus is humanising the NDIS for a better participant experience, and to make sure the Scheme is there for the future.
Tags: Community and NDIS Review outcomes, inclusion of disability community and The co-design process, Making the NDIS better togetherWhat’s the difference between ‘reasonable and necessary’ and ‘foundational’ supports? Here’s what the NDIS review says
The long-awaited NDIS review has looked far beyond the National Disability Insurance Scheme, taking a bird’s eye view of disability services in Australia. Critical to the future of the NDIS are services for people with disability outside of the scheme.
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Landmark independent NDIS Review report released
A landmark review into the NDIS scheme has found the critical lifeboat supporting more than 600,000 Australians with disabilities needs to be fixed to ensure its future sustainability for decades to come. The much-anticipated report recommended 26 changes alongside 139 detailed actions to fix the NDIS and how Australians with disabilities access support more broadly.
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Cruel and irresponsible myths about the NDIS are treating autistic Australians as villains. This must stop
In mid-November, an internal review paper suggested that NDIS funding could be “incentivising” families to seek autism diagnoses for their children. The paper was widely reported upon in Australian media but, by the time it was criticised by disability advocates, a particularly cruel narrative about autistic people had once again reared its head.
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Mental health and the NDIS
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is designed to support people with disability to increase their independence and fully participate in community and working life.
People who meet the NDIS access criteria are known as NDIS participants.
People with long-term disability resulting from a mental health condition may be able to become NDIS participants.
Tags: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Local Area Coordinator, Mental health and the NDIS, psychosocial disability, To become an NDIS participantMore than 1 million Australians have ADHD. A Senate inquiry says fundamental change is needed to make their lives better
A landmark bipartisan Senate inquiry into ADHD has concluded and handed down its report this week, including 15 recommendations to change diagnosis and treatment, and improve the lives of those who live with the condition.
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Australia’s rates of autism should be celebrated – but real-life impact, not diagnosis, should determine NDIS support
Ahead of the release of the government’s review into the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the topic taking centre stage is the diagnosis of autism. Over one third of people accessing the scheme list it as a primary disability.
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The Rights Path Project
The Rights Path Project (TRPP) is a project that aims to strengthen NDIS participants’ understanding of their rights, what to expect of services, and how to raise concerns. This project is now calling for lived experience consultants to work with SSI and NDIS service providers to create resources to clarify your rights as a person with disability, and effectively address support and service-related concerns.
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Navigating My Way
Navigating My Way is a Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council project aiming to help consumers get what we need from the NDIS. The project is by and for people with lived and/or living experience of psychosocial disability, mental ill health, or as a consumer of mental health services. The project is funded by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
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National Disability Insurance Scheme
