Six Years and Counting: The NDIS and the Australian Disability Services System

The NDIS has been rolling out across Australia since 2013. Now in its sixth year, much research, report writing and commentary has been undertaken in order to rectify significant issues that have arisen.

The NDIS is only part of the Australian Disability Services System - an important part, but not the whole. It is the System that has to work and any reform should be focused on a short-, medium- and long-term strategic horizon, within a policy framework that supports the entire system.

We have developed a white paper designed to bring together the learnings and commentary developed over the last six years with a view to bringing the issues to a head.

In it we argue that we need an industry plan and a local decision making framework in the context of a national governance and accountability structure in order to rectify current issues and to reset the Australian Disability Services System. We also believe that the significant underspend in the NDIS can be applied to invest in real change.

This will help to ensure risk to people with disability is reduced in the context of the services and supports they need. It will also help to ensure efficiency and the appropriate application of tax payer funding where it will have real impact.

See the report and project website https://bit.ly/37uquSr