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Outdated job service ‘defeating the NDIS’
THE National Disability Insurance Scheme is failing to work with the federal government’s antiquated $1 billion employment service and is being forced to push people into controversial sheltered workshops, says chief executive David Bowen.
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Feedback forum for NDIS participants
The head of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has fronted a forum in Newcastle to get feedback from participants in the Hunter trial.
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My Kitchen Rules: Does reality TV do a better job of depicting people with disability?
Like most reality TV addicts of Australia, I’ll be tuning in to the new season of ‘My Kitchen Rules’ tonight – for the cooking, the snark, and perhaps most of all for Emilie — a Queensland contestant with a disability.
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Chief executive admits flaws in NDIS coverage for ACT families and responds to criticism
The chief executive of the National Disability Insurance Agency has admitted there are gaps in coverage for some ACT families, as administrators respond to criticism regarding delays, bureaucracy and complicated paperwork.
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Channel 4 issues strict diversity guidelines – and executives will lose bonuses if programmes miss them
Channel 4 executives will find their bonus payments cut if they fail to meet radical new diversity targets which require women, black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) people and the disabled to be given leading roles across all of its programmes.
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Governments urged to give intellectually disabled people more say in decision-making in 2015
ASHLEY HALL: The federal and state governments are being urged to give people with intellectual disabilities more say in the design of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Advocates
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Why people with disability avoid Sydney
The Sydney Opera House has been described as “the people’s house” by chief executive Louise Herron, but visiting can be a challenge for people with disability.
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Were disability advocacy groups too successful? It may explain their funding cuts
In the final days of 2014, the meagre funding granted to disability advocacy groups was cut. It ended an annus horribilis for the sector
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Call for a comprehensive blueprint for the NDIS rollout ahead of today’s minsters meeting
“If I could sit in the room with the disability ministers today, I have one message for them. We need to know it’s coming, we need to know when it’s coming so we can plan. We need you to see it through.”
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A Capalaba woman is desperate to move her disabled sister in to a care home of her choice on the bayside
A Capalaba woman is desperate to move her disabled sister in to a care home of their choice but has been told there is no money for it.
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