Plan Tracker – Plan Management’s Post

Today, the NDIA released some important rule changes that may impact your access to supports and how you navigate the NDIS. This is all part of the new 2024 NDIS Amendment Bill, which aims to give you more clarity over your funds and what supports you can use.  Some changes will happen now, and some will happen later, but here is what will change from Thursday 3 October and beyond. Find out what it means for participants in our article https://lnkd.in/g-hMWR9U #NDISChanges #PlanPartners #PlanManagement

Ok lets take a "gloves off" approach to this mess... They’ve turned the slow leak into an art form. Drip-feeding changes like some Orwellian trickle of “trust us” nonsense. They release these so-called reforms just slowly enough that we barely realize we’re being boiled alive in a pot of bureaucracy & compliance checks. They’ve set it up so we never get to see the whole ugly picture all at once. Instead, it's carefully fragmented, marketed like it's in our best interest, when, in reality, they’re chipping away at what NDIS was supposed to be – choice, control & actual support. If the reforms are supposed to be for our benefit, why do they always come packaged like a bad surprise party, with us as the last ones to find out? What are they hiding under all that “consultation” talk? If they’re so committed to “independence” and “individual choice,” why does every new policy make people more dependent on their approval, more monitored, more controlled? Are they helping or just holding the leash a bit tighter? Why does every so-called "improvement" to NDIS feel like it strips a little more dignity, & a little more autonomy? Is there any point at which they’ll stop pretending it’s about empowerment? How exactly did “privacy” become a quaint notion, sacrificed at the altar of “data gathering”? Is there any amount of personal info they won’t collect in the name of efficiency? Let’s be honest, when did “PACE” stop being about real pace & start meaning “Painfully Applied Compliance Experiment”? What kind of system is this when the people it’s supposed to support spend more time fighting for their rights than actually benefiting from the support? If these reforms are really about “cutting costs” & “increasing transparency,” why is it only the recipients who are constantly scrutinized? Who’s looking at where all that NDIS budget actually goes between well over 100 agencies, departments and trusts funds across all levels of government? #FutureFund #Disabilitycare #FederalRelations #FraudFusionTaskforce #DSS #Treasury #finance #ServicesAustralia #NDISCommission #NDIA Comply with every new rule & lose autonomy bit by bit, or resist & risk losing access altogether. Is that a choice, or coercion by another name? Who benefits when everything becomes standardized, monitored, and data-driven? The participants or the policymakers who now get to make every decision under the guise of “efficiency”? Bob Buckley Shirley Humphris Skye Hayes Karrie Brockovich Dr Rodney Jilek MAICD Cat Walker Byron Stol Graham Taylor Marie J. Anna-Marie Stancombe Peter Hamhougias Jarrod Sandell-Hay Peter Gregory Brendon Grail Loma Naser Veronica Stephan-Miller Annette A. Tara Hannon Brodie Betts Uli Cartwright Amanda Challen👩🦼 Graeme Innes AM Dr George Taleporos (GAICD, PhD) Samantha Connor Rachel Allan William Ward-Boas Helen Bonynge David Bonnefin Alan Hough Jordon Steele-John Tony Ridley, MSc CSyP FSyI SRMCP Mark Sweeney Mark Toomey

But why isn't there any justice or redress for the victims? the ones abused, assulted, unlawfully restrained, sexually abused, traumatised, or worse... theres no proactive safeguarding only minimal regulations. There is no person-centred safeguarding or oversight, no #psychological support or social workers and advocacy available through process, no trauma informed procedures. There's no participant focused #quality standards or really anything.... At the moment the only thing being safeguarded is the Commission's own liabilities, a compliance cash back system, and a fraud taskforce. You dont return #fraud funding back to participants plans or seek no justice for the participants for the assault or abuse they injured... no pain and suffering compensation from the penalty funding... As far as I see it... youre only protecting the government funding, the paperwork and yourselves from liabilities... Seems that the #NDIS #Commission is listed as "the effected party" seeking the penalty (infringement) funding for "provider failing to comply with conditions of registration." 🤨 because apparently as a result of their wringdoing, you werent able to uphold your obligations to protect #participants from harm... ( but even when you do know you do nothing, just look at Irabina #Autism Services) am I the only one seeing the problem here? this is being sold to us as "your best effort" to protect the safety and the lives of participants? If compliance a fraud detection approach worked dont you think we'd be free from crime already... this is quite clearly not the answer and enforcing more of the same... isn't the answer. . . The true definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expect different outcome. Currently all we have is a government cash back scheme and Neglectful Commission.

This page is definitely worth bookmarking! National Disability Insurance Agency are updating their Frequently Asked Questions page about the new legalisation regularly. You can read all the updates here - https://lnkd.in/gtH3nnzZ #ndis #ndischange #ndislegislation

Everything you need to know about the #NDISBill and why it isn’t good for participants. #KillTheBill #NDIS #NDIA #BillShorten #GovernmentAccountability #GovernmentTransparency

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has published its consultation paper on strengthening regulatory powers of the NDIS Commission. This includes details of the proposed new duties and the proposed new civil and criminal penalties. I will provide my preliminary analysis of the proposals in the next week. (Scroll to the end of the webpage below to find the consultation paper.) #ndis #disabilityservices #quality #safeguarding

They've turned the slow leak into an art form, haven't they? Drip-feeding changes like some Orwellian trickle of "trust us" nonsense. They release these so-called reforms just slowly enough that we barely realize we're being boiled alive in a pot of bureaucracy and compliance checks. They've set it up so we never get to see the whole ugly picture all at once. Instead, it's carefully fragmented, marketed like it's in our best interest, when, in reality, they're chipping away at what the NDIS was supposed to be - choice, control, and actual support. First PACE, DART, TEx, Supports list, mandatory registration, Bill 1 & 2 now too 👇 strict compliance measures, robondis debt collection. No wonder they couldn't release all these changes at once.. so instead distract us with a year long "independent review" while you plan your strategy of action measures.... got to give you credit though you actually pulled it off.

The NDIS Amendments Bill 2024 Destroying your rights one rule at a time. Trying to get a handle on that pesky NDIS Amendments Bill? Confused by the overwhelming number of amendments to the amendments because the first amendments weren’t right, so they had to change those amendments to make them better, but they didn’t? Confused by that sentence? Here’s my easy guide to how the NDIS Amendments Bill is the beginning of a slow drip feed of changes aimed at undermining the core of your plan choice and control and putting it back in the hands of Politicians, Bureaucrats and Service Providers.

The NDIS Bill passed both Houses on 22 August, following two weeks of debate and amendment in the upper house. More amendments were moved in response to stakeholder feedback to strengthen the Bill’s protections and require additional consultation with states and territories on key NDIS Rules. While OTA is deeply disappointed that the Bill has passed, we will continue to seek to influence the Bill’s implementation including pushing for information for the sector on what is changing, and when, and working to influence the design of the NDIS Rules, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and provide adequate supports for participants including full access to the OT scope of practice. Read more about this story here: https://lnkd.in/gqtC9TNN