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Plan Management Key to NDIS Success
President of financial management service organisation PCG Public Partnerships Marc Fenton, told Pro Bono Australia News that self-direction could revolutionise the Australian experience.
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National Disability Insurance Scheme struggling to meet enrolment targets, report shows
The first quarterly report from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) transition phase shows the scheme came nowhere near to hitting its original estimates for enrolees.
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People with disability underrepresented in politics: advocate
Some political parties are attempting to improve diversity by targeting the representation of women and culturally diverse, Indigenous and LGBTI people.
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WA Government closes in on NDIS deal
The State Government is on the verge of clinching a deal to run its disability services from Perth, rather than 3200km away in Geelong.
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Talks continue after ACT, federal NDIS stalemate
The ACT government and the federal agency overseeing the National Disability Insurance Scheme rollout have resumed planning meetings to cope with increased demand.
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Tasmanian Government reinstates disability taxi subsidy after NDIS gap emerges
Tasmanians who have moved onto the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will now have access to a temporary taxi subsidy until next June.
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Bundaberg disability group kicking down barriers through martial arts
If you are young, old, even in a wheelchair, a group in Bundaberg in Queensland is working hard to show that martial arts are for everyone by kicking down barriers around disability
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Funds for Mental Health Providers To Transition to NDIS
The federal government is providing a $3 million assistance package to support mental health providers transition to the NDIS.
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Disability Advocate Wins Top Award
The manager of a South Australian community visitor scheme, which carries out inspections to mental health units, hospital emergency departments and disability accommodation, Maurice Corcoran AM, has won the top award in this year’s National Disability Awards.
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WA disability scheme: Confusion reigns as state, Commonwealth seek consensus
Some disability service providers in Western Australia are being forced to operate in three systems while they wait for the state and federal governments to agree on a model of the national disability scheme.
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Concerns Tasmanians on the NDIS will be left out-of-pocket when taxi subsidy ends
Disability advocates are concerned a number of Tasmanians will be worse off when the State Government Transport Access Scheme ends and the NDIS is introduced.
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“It’s like a five-year-old wrote it”: disability advocates slam NDIS care plans
When Jessica Eshel heard a new national disability scheme was coming, she vowed to advocate on behalf of her sister Antonella, 41, who has an intellectual and other complex disabilities.
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NDIS problems continue despite costly investigation
The federal government has spent more than $400,000 on analysing risks and problems with the National Disability Insurance Scheme over the past three months, according to documents obtained under freedom of information laws.
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Travel access outcry over NDIS cab gap
THE State Government has reminded Tasmanians with disabilities they are not obliged to join the National Disability Insurance Scheme following an outcry over reduced access to travel subsidies as the program rolls out.
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NDIS model for Western Australia undecided after state, federal governments fail to reach agreement
The West Australian and federal governments have been unable to come to an agreement on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) before an October deadline, as the Commonwealth pushes for a “nationally consistent” model.
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Most Complaints to Human Rights Commission on Disability Discrimination
The Australian Human Rights Commission has confirmed in a Senate estimates hearing that disability discrimination received the highest level of complaints across the board to the commission.
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NDIS: Disability advocates call new payments scheme ‘time-consuming and prone to error’
Disability advocates are ramping up calls for the National Disability Insurance Scheme to reverse a decision on the way it handles payments to participants.
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NDIS: WA disability service providers prepare for future care system
Disability service providers in Western Australia are re-modelling themselves to be more competitive and offer greater choice, ahead of a final decision on the National Disability Insurance Scheme in the state.
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Corporate Heavyweights Replace Bonyhady in NDIS Shakeup
The so-called “father” of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Bruce Bonyhady, is set to be replaced in an agency clean up, according to reports.
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Live testing may have avoided NDIS issues
A Senate committee has been told that live testing of the NDIS IT portal could have prevented the computer issues affecting the rollout.
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ACT NDIS ‘Shutdown’ Resolved
The issues that would have seen more than a 1,000 people with disability missing out on the National Disability Insurance Scheme in the ACT appear to have been resolved.
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Disability group concern with NDIS board
Imagine a women’s rights agency run by a board of men. Or an indigenous welfare group managed by non-indigenous people. This is the situation that those in the disability sector say is facing them.
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NFPs Demand ACT NDIS Shutdown Be Reversed
Disability advocacy organisations across the country have united to call on the state and federal governments to work together to reverse the “shutdown” of the National Disability Insurance Scheme in the ACT.
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Disability groups back targets to boost lagging employment rates
Some of the country’s biggest corporations have been coming under fire during the current annual general meetings season for linking lucrative CEO and executive bonuses to non-financial targets for diversity, sustainability and culture.
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