How to reform the NDIS and better support disabled people who don’t qualify for it
This article looks at the annual NDIS pricing rules that aim to ensure services remain sustainable.
The 2025/26 Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits is here
The 2025-26 NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits (PAPL) has been released, bringing modest increases for some supports and significant shifts for others. DSC outlines what’s changed – and what hasn’t.
500,000 Australians live with mental illness but don’t qualify for the NDIS
The Productivity Commission says addressing this gap must be an urgent priority for all governments.
Frontline leaders: Transforming health outcomes
Frontline leaders have a critical role to play in supporting health outcomes for people with disability. This article explores the barriers to achieving great health outcomes, what the statistics reveal, and how frontline leaders can change the story.
What’s happening with eligibility reassessment?
A recent Administrative Review Tribunal decision had *a thing to say* about the procedural fairness of the NDIA’s eligibility reassessment processes, and the updated timeframes for responding to requests for information.
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.
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.