Submissions to a parliamentary inquiry have raised concerns that controversial proposed changes to the NDIS will not serve people from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Automated assessment of disability support recipients’ eligibility and determinations of how much funding they should receive will continue but won’t replace manual approvals or prevent modifications.

Talk of "computer-generated NDIS plans" refers to the new digital tool the NDIS will soon be implementing to help determine participant funding. In October, the government announced changes to how ...

There is concern about how controversial proposed independent assessments could impact domestic violence survivors and those at risk of it. There is concern about what the proposed model of NDIS ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. SALLY SARA: The disability community has welcomed moves by the new Minister for the NDIS (National ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hilary Harper: The changes mooted by the federal government to the NDIS this year are causing concern ...

And practitioners diagnosing children with more severe ­autism than their characteristics warrant in order to secure access to funding for services under the NDIS must be “called out” for putting the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The new Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme has stood behind a plan to introduce independent assessments for people ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Disability Discrimination Commissioner Ben Gauntlett went through the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s independent assessment ...

A plan for controversial independent assessments of National Disability Insurance Scheme participants has been dumped by the Morrison government after a showdown with the states. NDIS Minister Linda ...