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The Children’s Expert Advisory Group (CEAG) met for their third meeting Tuesday 1 October 2024. This was an online meeting.

From 18 October 2024, we will remove the secret question and answer sign in option to linked myGov accounts.

There is an upcoming planned outage.

I’m writing with more information about recent changes to NDIS supports as we near the end of the 30-day provider transition period.

The refreshed continence provider list is now available on the NDIS website. The continence provider list – a collation of NDIS registered providers, and their service offerings – helps participants, their families and carers to find trusted information on continence products. The list is an additional resource to help with finding and comparing continence products and providers.

Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Government Services the Hon. Bill Shorten MP has today announced the second part of NDIS legislation Getting it Back on Track Bill, which will significantly increase protections for Scheme participants and workers, as well as improve the quality and safety of supports for all participants.

Reforms led by the Minister for the NDIS are contributing to Scheme expenditure being $1 billion lower than forecast in the 2024-25 Budget. The reforms are expected to stabilise the growth in Scheme expenses over the next 4 years.

Three people have been jailed in New South Wales for their roles in a multimillion-dollar defrauding of the NDIS, in a week NDIS Minister, the Hon. Bill Shorten MP announced further measures to crackdown on rorts. The sentencing is the result of an investigation into several suspected fraudulent providers in western Sydney. The investigation, led by the Australian Federal Police in partnership with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), AUSTRAC and Services Australia, uncovered more than $5.8 million in fraud during the thorough investigation. Two other men were sentenced to imprisonment in 2022 as part of the investigation.

There are upcoming planned multi-system outages. Planned outages allow us to update and improve our systems.

Inklings is a pilot program available to Western Australian parents and caregivers of babies and toddlers aged 6-18 months who are showing early developmental differences or delays.