News and commentary on the NDIS (39)

NDIS September 2015 eNewsletter

Disability Loop eNews Issue #9 (21st october 2015)

• New information about NDIS and housing
• What are people from Western Australia worried about? What's happening there that is different?
• Queensland announces it's first NDIS sites: Townsville, Charters Towers and Palm Island
• Quick links to the NDIS in the news
• Have you decided not to take part in the NDIS? Have you been told you can’t join the NDIS?

Invest in capacity building before the NDIS rollout to make it work

Carolyn Campbell-McLean, My Choice Matters, 24th September 2015

I’m struggling to hold back tears right now. I’m relaying my thoughts to my colleague Annie over the phone. I can’t write them myself because I’m stuck lying flat on my back in bed, unable to access specialised nursing care for at least 5 days. This is the reality of somebody with high and sometimes varying support needs in the current disability system.

The NDIS is official. The rollout schedule has been released. The sector is rejoicing ...

Key Points from the conference We are worth the investment - people with intellectual disability and the NDIS, held in July 2015
NSW Council for Intellectual Disability, October 2015

Parents fear privatisation of NSW disability services

Rachel Browne, Sydney Morning Herald, 9th October 2015

... With the government planning to transfer state-run disability services to the non-government sector, Mrs Pickering is concerned there will be no private provider willing to care for people with the most complex needs ...

• NSW CID posted a link to this article on its Facebook page on 11th October - you might be interested in some of the responses.

For some, the long cold wait is over

George Taleporos, Every Australian Counts, 24th September 2015
... Imagine you’re waiting for a train, you’ve had a long, and tiring day. You wait on the platform for hours but there’s no announcement, no indication whatsoever about when your train will arrive to take you home. It’s cold and wet and it’s getting dark. A cold blustery wind is chilling you to the bone and moment by moment you look up to the platform monitor hoping to see when your train will arrive ...

How the NDIS is changing the lives of Hunter residentsJenny Marchant, ABC Newcastle, 23rd September 2015
Families in the Hunter who were among the first in Australia to use the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) have reflected on how it's affected them, as Federal and State governments prepare to roll out the scheme throughout New South Wales ...