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What we have heard report

NDIS Review
Thursday 29th June, 2023
s from individuals and organisations who have already submitted feedback to the Review. Part A draws out the five most challenging and important issues given the Terms of Reference from
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‘Deeply unfair’: Godfather of the NDIS calls for major reform

Patricia Karvelas
ABC RN
Friday 30th June, 2023
When the NDIS was legislated 10 years ago, it was a world-leading reform, but cost blowouts and questions about its design and administration have plagued the scheme. Now, an ongoing
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Why it Matters resources

Community Resources Unit
Monday 26th June, 2023
This series of booklets covers topics including advocacy, employment and succession Planning. They offer practical advice to help you advocate and build safeguards for your family member with disability, and
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Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and changing ideas of intellectual disabilities

Lee-Ann Monk, David Henderson, Christine Bigby, Richard Broome and Katie Holmes
Monash University Publishing
Monday 26th June, 2023
This meticulously researched book uses archival records to explore the history of Kew Cottages through the trajectory of ideas behind development of disability policy, both nationally and internationally, and the
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People with psychosocial disability may be diverted from NDIS in future, as government forecasts 27,000 reduction in participant growth

Jake Evans
ABC
Wednesday 28th June, 2023
Fewer people with psychosocial disability may be added to the NDIS in the future, as the minister flags that the government expects to divert 27,000 people to outside supports in
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Jamal says he’s owed $10,000, amid claims of ‘rampant’ wage theft by NDIS providers

Madeleine Wedesweiler
SBS News
Tuesday 27th June, 2023
Mr Banfield is no longer working for the company and with the help of the Australian Services Union, is part of a group that's taken it to the Fair Work
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The NDIS review has participants and people with disability on edge. These are the areas it’s most concerned about

Evan Young and Nas Campanella
ABC
Friday 30th June, 2023
Over its first decade, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has improved hundreds of thousands of lives across Australia. But it's not all been smooth sailing: there have been complaints
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A decade on, the NDIS has had triumphs, challenges and controversies. Where to from here?

Helen Dickinson and Sophie Yates
The Conversation
Friday 30th June, 2023
But in the years since, most of the focus has been on personalised plans, with goals around inclusion and community falling by the wayside.
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Social Model of Disability Video Series

Cultural Perspectives
Wednesday 7th June, 2023
This video series explores the importance of the social model of disability framework when responding to disability issues in culturally and linguistically diverse communities.. The videos highlight the experiences of
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Our regulatory approach

Victorian Disability Worker Commission
Monday 26th June, 2023
'Our Regulatory Approach' explains the high-level principles that guide the work of the Commission to meet their vision for people with disability to be able to choose services that best
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Not a one-stop shop: the NDIS in Australia’s social infrastructure

Michael D’Rosario
Per Capita
Thursday 30th March, 2023
The NDIS was founded upon a three-tier system, with each tier providing a critical and unique contribution to the overall system of support and care for disabled people. Tier 2
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Majority of disabled employees have to initiate the process of securing workplace adjustments, survey finds

Elizabeth Howlett
People Management UK
Thursday 22nd June, 2023

In The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023 by Business Disability Forum (BDF), which surveyed 1,500 disabled workers and 400 managers, more than half (58 per cent) said getting the…

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