NDIS insights 2024-25. Justice and Equity Centre, 17 Feb 2025

This report provides an overview of the most significant developments and what the changes mean for people with disability. It also foreshadows what can be expected in 2025 and discusses government commitments to co-design further reforms and develop ‘foundational supports’ for people with disability outside the NDIS.

Supervisor Quick Reference Guide: Supporting workers to recover after a work injury

This quick reference guide highlights the key actions and resources you need to help support your injured worker through the claims process.

NDIS First Nations strategy released

The First Nations Strategy 2025–2030 commits to improving outcomes for First Nations people with disability.  The strategy is to ensure the NDIS is accessible, culturally safe and effective for First Nations participants, families and communities.

Disability inclusive emergency management (DIEM)

During disasters, people with disability face a higher risk of death, injury and neglect. DIEM aims to improve national capability and safety and wellbeing outcomes for people with disability.  The toolkit is a series of documents that support a wide range of people to ensure disability inclusion is part of emergency preparedness planning.

Guiding the Way: Building Common Principles for Navigators, NDS & DANA

Navigators are designed to assist individuals in accessing mainstream services, engaging with their communities, and utilising foundational supports. For people supported by the NDIS, Navigators will help with planning and managing NDIS budgets. How will this impact you?

Caring Futures: Australian Attitudes About the Desirability of Care Work. Australian Journal of Social Issues 5 March 2025

Draws on the concepts of recognition, value and social distribution to explore how public perceptions of pay, job security, and working conditions shape attitudes towards care work. It also investigates how personal experiences of unpaid caregiving influence whether people view care work as fulfilling and their likelihood of considering a future job in the care sector.

DCS Podcast – Can support workers be friends with the people they support, or does this cross a boundary?

DCS Sara Gingold has started podcasts where she speaks to people with disability about what they like (and don’t like) in the provision of disability supports, in order to help providers and support workers, well, not F This Up!

The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support. The Conversation, Published: May 23, 2025.

This article, published in The Conversation, highlights escalating concerns about the sustainability of the NDIS and the urgent need to establish foundational supports for people with disability who are not eligible for the scheme.

Workforce Evolve – build a diverse and inclusive workforce

Business Chamber Queensland’s Workforce Evolve is a free, flexible online training course that’ll help you find new talent and keep them. Online modules and tailored business coaching, Workforce Evolve will transform your approach to attracting and retaining talent, both now and into the future. Register your business today for one-on-one support from an experienced coach

Disability Tool: The Hidden Disabilities Sunflower

A simple tool for you to voluntarily share that you have a disability or condition that may not be immediately apparent – and that you may need a helping hand, understanding, or more time in shops, at work, on transport, or in public spaces.