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Victoria-based NDIS Partners in the Community Link Health and Community (Link) and Latrobe Community Health Service (LCHS) have decided to merge. The NDIA is working closely with both organisations to ensure continuity of service for children and families living in these areas.

News about people with disability, their families, carers and the wider community, benefitting from more supported accommodation in the Barkly region as a result of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) trial.

Providers in WA now have more time to transition to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission). The WA Department of Communities Disability Services Provider Panel re-opened registration on 1 July 2020 and will continue to accept new applications until tender closure date, 18 September 2020, 5pm AWST.

The NDIA has released an updated Operational Guideline and several resources to give participants, providers and assessors clearer guidelines about assistance animals funding requests.

Queenslanders with disability will benefit from improved access to support and services announced today.

Celebrate International Day of People with Disability (IDPwD) with us on 3 December. This year’s theme, ‘Seeing the ability in disability’, challenges perceptions and common stereotypes, and celebrates the achievements of Australians living with disability.

Today, March 21, is World Down Syndrome Day, and there's an important message Shona Byrne (and her mum, Penny) want people to know – every person with Down syndrome has something to offer and given a chance they can make significant contributions to society.

The NDIS is establishing a panel to listen and understand more from people with disabilities in harder-to-reach communities. Organisations on this panel will support the NDIA to hear directly from people with disability (incuding their families and carers), with a focus on harder-to-reach commumities. These include people with intellectual disability, cognitive disabilities, people housed in group or hospital settings, and/or people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities. Engagement activities could include things like one-on-one interviews and focus groups. Organisations with experience and understanding of the disability sector, including harder to reach communities, are invited...

We've made improvements to our webchat to make it easier for participants, nominees, providers and the public to interact with the NDIS National Contact Centre.