Building Inclusion: Australia’s Disability Strategy podcast series

The six-part podcast series Building Inclusion: Australia’s Disability Strategy has recently been released, promoting the voices of disability inclusion in Australia. Host Sam Drummond, a prominent disability advocate, writer and lawyer, travels across Australia and interviews people from all different backgrounds and lived experiences of disability.

 

$11 million grant to boost autism research

Is your business or organisation child safe? If your organisation works with or provides services for children, you’ll need to comply with Queensland’s new child safeguarding law.  The Child Safe Organisations system is already in effect for some sectors and requires businesses and organisations providing spaces or services to children to implement 10 Child Safe Standards to help protect children from harm.

 

Workforce resources – NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Have you been to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission website recently? It has a range of workforce resources to support you to deliver safe and quality services.

 

NDIS Code of Conduct – Sexual Misconduct

The NDIS Commission has released a new short video that’s part of an educational series that will help providers better understand the NDIS Code of Conduct. It covers preventing sexual misconduct – one of 8 elements under the Code.

 

First prosecution under the Guide, Hearing and Assistance Dogs Act 2002

ABC article on an Agnes Waters accommodation provider becoming the first person to be prosecuted after refusing to allow a woman to stay with her guide dog.

 

Psychosocial Wellbeing in Community Services

This course by QCOSS introduces community workers to psychosocial wellbeing, helping to understand its importance, recognise workplace risks that can affect wellbeing, and identify personal and organisational responsibilities to maintain a healthy work environment.

 

ATO – Check the GST-free status of NDIS supplies

If you are a supplier of disability supports and registered for GST, your supplies to a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participant may be GST-free.

 

DSC Frontline Podcast: Communication

Great communication is integral to the provision of high-quality disability supports – but we’re guessing you already knew that. In this episode DSC Frontline go beyond why good communication matters and focus on the practicalities of how providers and support workers can level up their communication skills.

BuyAbility Network – Social Enterprises making a difference

The network is made up of BuyAbility Social Enterprises, which employ people with disability in supported working environments. By purchasing goods and services from the BuyAbility Social Enterprises you are supporting people with disability to participate in the workforce like their family, friends and neighbours. Find a location in Queensland.

DSC Podcast: Duty of Care v Dignity of Risk: Episode 3 of Frontline

We all take risks and want to be the boss of our own lives. But how can providers and support workers strike a balance between supporting people to take risks and meeting their duty of care obligations?