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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,…

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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…

Victorian Disability Worker Commission
Friday 19th July, 2024

Victorian Disability Worker Commission along with the Disability Services Commissioner, have created a Complaints about Victoria Disability Services flyer to help you to know who to make a complaint about…

Summer Foundation
Thursday 28th March, 2024

This study by Summer Foundation and Latrobe University presents the perspectives of people with acquired neurological disability, disability support workers, and close others of people with complex needs to construct…

Victorian Disability Workers Commission
Wednesday 6th March, 2024

The Registration Board and VDWC have developed this searchable catalogue to provide disability workers with easily accessible information about training and development resources that will improve the quality and safety…

Victoria Government
Thursday 1st February, 2024

The Victorian Government has appointed Jonathan Kaplan as the state’s new independent Social Services Regulator. The new regulator will be tasked with streamlining and simplifying the regulation of social services…

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