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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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A woman drowned in a bath, a carer abused clients: Sydney NDIS provider condemned

Perry Duffin
SMH
Tuesday 21st March, 2023
The damning findings against Afford, the Australian Foundation for Disability, were released after the royal commission heard evidence about a carer who abused two disabled men. The company also faces
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Disability service provider capacity in focus

Probono Australia
Wednesday 22nd February, 2023

As the disability sector grapples with workforce shortages, the Disability Royal Commission is examining what can be done to enhance the capacity of disability service providers to deliver safe and

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Disability royal commission questions lack of accountability from leaders of service providers after abuse uncovered

Laura Beavis
ABC
Saturday 18th February, 2023

A disability royal commissioner says he has been struck by the fact that “nobody seems to have been held accountable” at a disability service provider in the two years since…

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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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Federal Court rejects NDIA appeal over $1.5m payment to Nardy House for residents’ care

Fatima Olumee
ABC News
Friday 18th November, 2022
The organisation has been footing the bill for registered nursing care since October 2019, when the NDIA notified three residents at Nardy House that their funding for registered nurse care
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Pay to get paid: NDIS workers raise concerns about gig economy platforms

Paul Karp
Guardian Australia
Sunday 7th August, 2022
Murdoch argues if any other business told workers they “had to pay 1.5% to access their pay this week, people would be kicking up a bit of a stink about
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Confessions of a burnt-out Support Coordinator

Guest Writer
DSC
Thursday 14th July, 2022
Burnout. It’s one of those words in the disability sector that can feel overused. And yet, perhaps its frequent use is a reflection of the sheer number of people impacted
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Disability services not always suited to digital, report reveals

Danielle Kutchel
PBA
Friday 8th July, 2022
The Provider Choice research report, COVID-19 and the NDIS, found that for many participants, digital delivery of services was inadequate during the pandemic, and face-to-face was preferred, in a finding
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Uberisation’ of the disability sector threatens provision of care

Danielle Kutchel
PBA
Wednesday 6th July, 2022
The platforms that connect workers with clients in this new gig-style approach “act purely as intermediary platforms… [taking] no responsibilities regarding the safety of the work environment for workers, or
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Sensitive NDIS health data breached in client platform hack

Denham Sadler
Innovation Aus
Tuesday 31st May, 2022
CTARS – a cloud-based client management system provider for NDIS, disability services, out of home care and children’s services – revealed this week that an unauthorised third-party had gained access
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