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Registration for Supported Independent Living and Support Coordination

PWDA
Friday 28th March, 2025

PWDA Response to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission Consultation Paper on Mandatory Registration for Supported Independent Living (SIL) and Support Coordination.

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Have Your Say on Foundational Supports

Women With Disabilities Australia
Friday 27th September, 2024
Monday 7th October, 2024

Our Foundational Supports Survey is your chance to share your insights and experiences with disability supports outside the NDIS. Your feedback will help us advocate for the services you need…

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Stay off your phone! A guide for disability support workers.

VALID
Thursday 11th April, 2024

It’s time you heard directly about good support from people who have lived experience of disability. This peer-led resource captures insights intended to be shared, not only with support workers,…

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New book  ‘Disability Practice: Safeguarding Quality Service Delivery’

ASID
Tuesday 19th March, 2024

This book is a key resource for students, managers and practitioners working in disability. It has 13 chapters. Each chapter is a different topic. It is written in approachable language,…

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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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Damning report into boarding houses for NDIS participants

The Hon Bill Shorten MP
Media release
Friday 19th May, 2023
Approximately 1,600 NDIS participants are amongst 4,000 people living in 115 SRS’ across Victoria. The interim report to be released today - which was triggered by whistle-blowers and commissioned by
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Towards best-practice access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse people with a disability

Social Policy Research Centre and the National Ethnic Disability Alliance
Disability royal Commission
Thursday 27th April, 2023
The report investigates how to improve services, supports and programs for people with disability from culturally diverse backgrounds. The study concludes that 'good' practice for services involves three key elements,
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Own Motion Inquiry into Platform Providers Operating in the NDIS Market

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
Friday 31st March, 2023
Friday 28th April, 2023

The purpose of this Inquiry is to examine how Platform Providers operate in the NDIS Market. The Inquiry will hear from people with disability accessing NDIS services and supports through…

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Own Motion Inquiry into Aspects of Supported Accommodation in the NDIS

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
Monday 16th January, 2023
The Inquiry examined reportable incidents and complaints made to the NDIS Commission in connection with the supported accommodation services (specifically group homes). The Inquiry’s purpose was to enable the NDIS
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State of the Disability Sector 2022

National Disability Services
Wednesday 30th November, 2022
the report is based on responses from 364 disability service providers from all over the country who took part in the annual State of the Disability Sector Survey. The latest
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Occasional Paper No. 3: Learning from reviews of Victorian disability service provision to people who have died 2017 to 2021 – A reflection for future safeguarding.

Disability services Commissioner
Monday 11th October, 2021
This report provides an overview of the lessons learnt from more than three years of reviewing disability service provision to people who have died. Sadly, the majority of deaths reviewed
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Disability Support Work and the impacts of COVID-19

Melbourne Disability Institute
Friday 28th May, 2021
The study provides important insights into the challenges experienced by staff working in Victorian disability residential settings in the second wave of Victoria’s COVID-19 pandemic. It describes the findings from
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