Disability advocates welcome NDIS reforms to increase number of scheme participants
Advocates are welcoming substantial changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme which they believe will make the system quicker and easier to navigate. Key points: The new reforms follow an independent review of the NDIS last year Advocates say enacting the review's recommendations will make the scheme easier to access 100,000 new participants have signed up to the NDIS in the past 12 months Only 400,000 Australians are signed up to the NDIS, despite 4.4 million living with a disability. "They are really important things like setting timeframes for key NDIS processes so people know how long it's going to take to assess their applications for the scheme or how long it would take for them to get NDIS funding or a review," she said. Ms Deane said advocates had been concerned that the National Disability Insurance Agency — which administers the NDIS — wasn't working hard enough to fully engage people in hard to reach communities. "If you are, say, an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander or English isn't your first language, it's hard to know if the scheme even exists, and then, it's a pretty complex process."
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