Disability Reform Roadmap for 2024 and 2025

Disability reform roadmapAll governments are committed to progressing key disability reforms and working with people with disability to make Australia more inclusive, accessible and safe for people with disability.The Roadmap highlights the key actions all governments will take in 2024 and 2025 to build the foundations and deliver on commitments for the disability and National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) reform agenda.
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Tags: co-delivery in partnership, co-design with people with disability, Disability Reform Roadmap, Disability Royal Commission, National Disability Insurance Scheme

Melbourne – Overview of the Participants Journey

National Disability Insurance SchemeThe National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) invites people with disability, families and carers to attend information sessions to learn more about the participant journey at the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This will take place on Tuesday 7 May 2024.
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Tags: How the NDIS supports people with disability, National Disability Insurance Scheme, Overview of the Participants Journey, Using and changing an NDIS plan, What to expect at a plan implementation meeting

More than a ‘disability person’. What finishing school is like for youth with intellectual disability

What finishing school is like for youth with intellectual disabilityLeaving school and figuring out what’s next is challenging for young people. For those with disability, it is even harder. It is often a time when supports are withdrawn as they leave the heavily structured school environment.
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Tags: heavily structured school environment, National Disability Insurance Scheme, What finishing school is like for youth with intellectual disability