The NDIS offers extra funding for providers delivering services in remote and very remote areas. We know it’s confusing to understand how locations are classified as remote and very remote, and how extra loadings are calculated. We have made a summary of the most important information you need to know about this topic.
Read MoreThe NDIS (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Amendment (2019 Measures No. 1) Rules 2019 was just released. The Amendment will see some changes to the NDIS (Provider Registration and Practice Standards) Rules 2018. We have written a summary about what you should know from the Amendment.
Read MoreOn 14 November the Honourable Stuart Robert MP, Minister of the NDIS and Minister for Government Services, released his plan to deliver the final 20% of the NDIS. He announced the plan in a speech at the National Press Club in Canberra.
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2019 was a year of significant growth for the NDIS. Almost 300,000 participants are now in the Scheme. 100,000 of these participants are receiving supports for the first time. This is a 10-fold uplift from just over 30,000 participants who had a plan at the beginning of Transition on 1 July 2016.
Read MoreThe NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission Annual Report 2018-2019 has been released.[1] The report informs stakeholders about the NDIS Commission’s operations. It provides corporate information and documents performance.
Read MoreThe NDIA have released an updated NDIS Price Guide and Support Catalogue 2019-20. It is effective 1 October 2019. The main update is the inclusion of more than 90 new or updated disability-related health support items.
Read MoreThe NDIS represents a key change to the way people with a disability are supported in their everyday lives. The scheme aims to help people get support that will develop their skills and independence over time. The NDIS has now been rolled out in all states, with WA yet to fully transition.
Read MoreThe NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has announced that new Worker Checks are coming soon. The Checks will replace state arrangements and set a national standard. They will ensure that NDIS participants have safe, high-quality services and supports.
Read MoreThe NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission have recently announced audit updates which will benefit some service providers. There have been some teething issues with the audit process as states move to the national scheme.
Read MoreThe NDIS Worker Orientation Module, ‘Quality, Safety and You’ was launched in early May and has an important message. It shows workers that people with a disability should be treated as any other Australian, and highlights the importance of the NDIS in giving people with a disability more choice.
Read MoreCompetition in the NDIS marketplace for goods and services is generating some fresh realities for providers. A good working knowledge of Federal and State consumer law is now essential.
Sole traders competing to woo participants, carers and plan managers, need to stay within the parameters of laws protecting consumers from unfair trading practices.
Read MoreHuman rights underpin the NDIS legislation and are the foundation on which the shift to the self-directed, person-centred approach is grounded. In the past disability care has had an uneven power base. Now it’s the participant who has the power. Disability support providers need to work with the needs of the participant in this new person-centred and customer-centric ethos of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Read MoreThe future and present employment prospects of thousands of Australians are being transformed by the NDIS, figures show. Disability care is taking the crown that once adorned the mining boom.
Even with the NDIS fully rolled out in only two states (NSW and South Australia), more than 14,271 service providers are now approved to deliver disability supports. This is an increase of 64% since 30 June 2017.
Read MoreRegistration to the NDIS has been available since June 2016 to most service providers, who at that time were regulated by their state or territory.
The National Quality and Safeguarding Framework (QSF) was launched in July 2018 to supersede this localised approach in which the NDIA was registrar for applications.
Read MoreThe first phase of findings from the Independent Pricing Review (IPR) have been adopted in the 2018-19 NDIS Price Guide.
The IPR, delivered by McKinsey & Company in February, looked at the pricing strategy for the NDIS and made 25 recommendations – all of which were accepted in principle by the NDIA.
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