Getting the NDIS Back on Track

The Back on Track Bill is the first step in returning the scheme to its original intent, but also growing the ecosystem of supports available to all people with disability.

There’s several important features to the Bill that we support:

• Enabling Foundational Supports for all people with disability, regardless of eligibility for the NDIS, by defining an “NDIS support”.

• Preventing overservicing, by ensuring the NDIA outlines what supports are funded on the early intervention pathway

• Flexible funding based on a whole-of-person approach, which will support continuity of supports and a securely-employed support workforce.

• Fairer needs assessments through a consistent assessment tool.

• Stopping rorts and rip-offs, such as by preventing a banned person from being a quality auditor.

The NDIS Review heard loud and clear that significant steps are needed to put the heart back into the NDIS. Many support workers know that with any change comes uncertainty, having lived through major sector transformations multiple times over.

When change is coordinated without genuine co-design, it leaves people behind. So we urge the government to listen closely to people with disability and advocates as it sculpts these changes to ensure it gets the details right.

But as the NDIS Review heard from participants, advocates, families and workers across the country: no change is not an option.

You can read our full submission here.