NewsInformation, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) consultation sessions
2 March 2016
Information, Linkages and Capacity Building consultation sessions for people with disability, families and carers, and for ILC organisations are happening around Australia until late April. Find out when and where, and how to register.
IAC in focus: the NDIS Independent Advisory Council (IAC) is helping to improve the NDIS for people with psychosocial disability
23 December 2015
This is the first in our 'IAC in focus' series of articles which will cover the important work of the NDIS Independent Advisory Council (IAC). The IAC is an independent group of disability experts that give the NDIS advice from the perspectives of people with disability, family and carers and service providers. They think the NDIS could be better for people with psychosocial disability and have some ideas about how that could happen.
Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) – Commissioning Framework – Consultation Draft has been released
23 December 2015
The NDIS has recently released a document called ‘Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) – Commissioning Framework – Consultation Draft’. This talks about how the NDIS can help people with disability and their families, even if they are not NDIS participants. This is about making life better for all people with disability and their families, in lots of different ways. People used to call ILC 'Tier 2'.
Tasmanian NDIS rollout timeline
23 December 2015
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) rollout has been announced for Tasmania. This page will help you find out when and where the NDIS is coming to you if you are in Tasmania.
South Australia NDIS rollout timeline
22 December 2015
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) rollout has been announced for South Australia. This page will help you find out when and where the NDIS is coming to you if you are in South Australia.
Open letter to SMH - 'Primary disability sector supports NDIS, point blank'
7 December 2015
Disability advocate Tricia Malowney wrote an open letter to Rachel Browne, journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald - in response to a December 7 article called 'Disability sector has grave concerns about NDIS roll out' - explaining that people with disability and their families are the primary part of the ‘disability sector’.
AFDO CEO Matthew Wright's speech at the NDIS New World Conference: Disability In The 21st Century
24 November 2015
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) CEO Matthew Wright spoke at the NDIS New World Conference: Disability In The 21st Century in October. Read his speech here, or watch the video (which includes captions and Auslan).
Disability housing institutions are beginning to close
24 November 2015
Disability housing institutions are buildings where very large numbers of people with disability live together. There have been a few stories in the news recently about some of these institutions closing, and new types of housing are being built before the NDIS rolls out. Different groups of people have different opinions about it.
What has the NDIS been up to in October and November?
24 November 2015
Since October 22, the NDIS have released: an Assistive Technology Strategy; the NDIA 2014-15 Annual Report; NDIS Quarterly Report; the Joint Standing Committee's second report on the NDIS, and a proposed NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework.
News from the NDIS New World Conference: Disability In The 21st Century
23 November 2015
Matthew, Catherine and Carl from Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) attended the NDIS New World Conference: Disability In The 21st Century in Brisbane this October. The conference was about how technology could be used by people with disability now and in the future.