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The sustainability of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is crucial for ensuring that it can continue providing essential support to Australians with disabilities, both now and in the future. Here are several key reasons why maintaining the sustainability of the NDIS is vital: Long-Term Support for Participants Sustainability ensures that the NDIS can continue […]

Under the NDIS, provider travel is not funded separately as the NDIS view where the therapy is delivered as a choice and control issue. As options are available in the marketplace for therapy to be delivered in a clinic environment, choosing to have therapy delivered in the home is a participant (or legal decision maker)

What is an Evidence-Based Approach? One of the key design principles of the NDIS is that decisions are made based on the best evidence available. The NDIS has access to an exhaustive number of experts who assist it in determining this based on current practice. An evidence-based approach involves making decisions and providing support based

Perverse Incentives of NDIS Providers Under an Individualised Funding Model The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) operates under an individualised funding model, aiming to provide participants with tailored support based on their unique disability-related support needs. This model offers significant benefits and is far better than the previous funding model. It removed caps, rationing and

NDIS entering a phase of rapid change: Focus on reducing plan sizes The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is currently in a phase of significant transformation, a process that is crucial for its long-term financial sustainability. This shift, which involves a strategic focus on reducing plan sizes, is not just a change in policy, but

Why Group-Based Supports are Considered the Minimum Viable Product for Value for Money by the NDIS The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) aims to provide effective and sustainable support to participants. Group-based supports are often considered the best way of delivering these supports when looking through the lens of “minimum viable product” and ‘value for

The importance of evidence and understanding the scope and intent of the NDIS and its relationship to NDIS funding decisions The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) operates on a framework that emphasises financial sustainability, evidence-based decisions, and providing value for money.As part of this framework, the evidence provided by participants is critical in determining the

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is designed to provide tailored support to Australians with disabilities, ensuring they can live ordinary lives. When requesting support from the NDIS, the principles of reasonable and necessary and value for money are prioritised before choice and control. There are several good reasons that this is the case and

Global Developmental Delay (GDD) is a term used to describe children who exhibit significant delays in multiple areas of development. While this diagnosis is crucial for Early Childhood Early Intervention (ECEI), it is not considered age-appropriate after the age of 6 for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Global Developmental Delay (GDD) is a term used to describe children who exhibit significant delays in multiple areas of development. While this diagnosis is crucial for Early Childhood Early Intervention (ECEI), it is not considered age-appropriate after the age of 6 for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).