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NDIS: GPs’ role definition a step closer

Morgan Liotta
RACGP Blog
Wednesday 2nd December, 2020
Ongoing college advocacy for GPs to be involved in the planning, implementation and unending support for their patients accessing the NDIS has been recognised by the committee, with the report
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Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID‐19?

Sophie Yates, Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith & Massimiliano Tani
Wednesday 25th November, 2020
This research abstract reports on a survey of over 700 families that explored how Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) supported children and young people and their families to learn
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NDIS Planning Final Report

Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Commonwealth of Australia
Tuesday 1st December, 2020
For years, participants, advocacy groups and the sector have been calling for reform in the planning arena. This inquiry, including the committee's interim report tabled in December 2019, and the
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CEO Open Letter – VALID stands against independent assessments

Kevin Stone
VALID
Monday 30th November, 2020
Yet, the NDIA have already decided that independent assessments will go ahead and that they will be mandatory. They have not done the research or evaluation necessary to prove that
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Getting started with the NDIS: Information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants

NDIA
Wednesday 11th November, 2020
This booklet helps communities understand and apply for the NDIS, with translations available in local indigenous languages and with the art of different local indigenous artists featured.
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Keeping the NDIS on track

Every Australian Counts
Wednesday 18th November, 2020
e NDIS Quarterly Reports have always had lots of interesting data on how the scheme is tracking. They allow people with disability, their families, organisations, even governments (shock horror) to
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Allied health Capability Framework: Disability and complex support needs

Allied health professionals play an important role in delivering the NDIS. The framework develops the skills and knowledge of allied health professionals to better provide high-quality, person-centred support that promotes
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Melbourne fraud network charged over $800,000 theft from Commonwealth

Mirage News
Thursday 19th November, 2020

Five members of an accused Melbourne crime syndicate have been charged with defrauding the National Disability Insurance Scheme and the Child Care Subsidy of $800,000.

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What’s the NDIA been hiding?

Sara Gingold
Disability Service Consulting (DSC)
Monday 16th November, 2020
Have you ever suspected that the NDIA has a secret list of supports they consider ‘controversial’ or simply ‘no-go’ zones? Well, it turns out that up until the middle of
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Government called in private law firms to fight a third of NDIS cases, figures show

Luke henriques-Gomes
The Guardian
Wednesday 11th November, 2020
Under the administrative review system that allows people to challenge government decisions, NDIS participants who have been denied supports and applicants who have been denied access to the scheme can
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Food a human-rights issue for people with disability

Mirage News
Thursday 12th November, 2020
Supporting the rights and needs of people with disability for equal access to safe, nutritious and enjoyable food is the call behind Dietitians Australia’s latest submission to the Disability Royal
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More questions than answers – NDIA and NDIS Commission grilled at Senate Estimates

Every Australian Counts
Tuesday 10th November, 2020
There were four hours of testimony from the NDIA, the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and the Department of Social Services yesterday at Budget Estimates. The hot seat of scrutiny
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