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?
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 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!
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.
This report provides an overview of national findings from the 2024 National Carer Survey regarding carers’ economic and social needs, caring relationships, carers’ experiences accessing services, and their health and wellbeing as well as diverse caring experiences. Highlighting the diversity of carers in Australia and, for the first time includes specific insights from First Nations and young carers.
DSC summarise the NDIS policies of the Labor, Liberal and Greens parties in the lead up to the 2025 federal election.
The DSC outline why you need to update your service agreements and which changes need to be made urgently- to protect you and the people you support.
Q&A session exploring the contradictory messages, changes under the new NDIS Act, what’s happening in practice, and steps providers can take.
An exploration on what’s happening with needs assessments, including a look at the NDIA’s tender for needs assessment tools.
Exploring what the 2025-26 Federal Budget means for the disability sector.