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Thoughts about some simple changes to the NDIS that would make life so much better

    So this has been on my mind for a while now and it’s the outright misinformation that is out there about disability and the NDIS, I am finding despite the chorus of content creators trying to educate people the legacy media seems to be louder and more persistent, but at the core lets be real the system is broken and we need to do better for everyone from support staff to Allied health professionals that write the reports to get us the funding we need at times that funding isn’t enough and then that is where the blame game starts around cost blowouts and people gaming the systems. So that brings me to the hairy end of the topic is the blame game and people thinking that participants have it easy( if you’re your decision maker it’s not) it can seem like a full-time job and this is where people get so wrong about who to blame as there is not an easy fix but there is several that are starting to emerge, the cost guide cap is a big one. Cracking down on dodgy providers and my person

The NDIS Reboot my thoughts on the matter

  OK so this is the start of a new series about the national disability insurance scheme as we have seen the minister for social services the honourable bill shorten is on a mission 2 reboot the NDIS we have seen a lot of fear-mongering from not only the legacy media b but from other places as well including I'm not limited to blogs YouTube TikTok by people who have a vested interest in ensuring that the way they can profit from this scheme is valid sorry this would be agencies that provide support workers who are currently overpromising and under-delivering Kaya two people with a disability. We are also seeing the fear that's rightly placed by disability advocates, however,, we do see that there are some major rort’s of a system that was designed true provide support for the most vulnerable end profoundly disabled people in our community. There was never supposed today a rolling into the NDIS of state-based systems these were designed to stay and support people who needed less