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SBS
Friday 14th February, 2025

Sam Galvin reckons he has the best job in the world. The Melbourne disability support worker helps people with acquired brain injury, mental health issues, and those with intellectual disabilities…

DFFH
Friday 29th November, 2024
Friday 20th December, 2024

The Victorian Government is helping more disability workers to deliver services in regional and rural Victoria. It is doing this by providing financial support to complete a course in disability….

Victorian Disability Worker Commission
Monday 4th November, 2024
Friday 13th December, 2024

The Disability Worker Registration Board of Victoria, in partnership with the Victorian Disability Worker Commission are consulting on standards for registered disability workers in Victoria. The disability worker registration scheme…

Ministers for the Department of Social Services
Friday 1st November, 2024

Good afternoon, everybody. It’s great to be here with Louise Glanville, who is the National Quality and Safeguards Commissioner for the NDIS, and also with Associate Commissioner Natalie Wade. Two…

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…

Victorian Disability Worker Commission
Monday 30th September, 2024

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Dan Stubbs has been reappointed as the Victorian Disability Worker Commissioner. With his lived experience of disability being blind, together with his extensive experience working alongside people with disability, including…

The Australian
Sunday 15th September, 2024

Bill Shorten will start forcing the 150,000 NDIS providers operating without oversight to become registered in a major overhaul of the disability sector that seeks to crack down on rorting,…

DSC
Monday 26th August, 2024

The NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce has made its recommendations on the design and implementation of a new graduated risk-proportionate regulatory model. Jess tackles your key questions about the…

DSC
Wednesday 14th August, 2024

Sometimes, environmental restrictive practices can be more about our values and priorities, than about the people we support. Therese explores how to recognise when this is occurring, so we can…

DSC
Friday 9th August, 2024

The NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce’s final report was made public today, with recommendations on re-designing the registration system. Jess and Sara explore where they landed on risk-proportionate registration,…

ABC News
Tuesday 6th August, 2024

Nick Avery has always loved the slow pace of living in regional Western Australia.  But a four-year wait to see an occupational therapist left her dependent on her husband to…

Department of Social Services
Monday 8th January, 2024

The long awaited report from the NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce dropped in what has been one of the biggest weeks in the disability community in Australia Read below…