Your Guide to the NDIS Review: Experts Have Their Say - Reasonable & Necessary with Dr George

[@minglewit-AutismADHDcoach]

Thank you, thank you, thank you , for all your dedicated work. I am in tears!!!! ❣

[@NoEconomyForSomeJen]

Thank you jarrod

[@margaretchandler-cross-7811]

Thank you all. Wonderful Podcast.

[@cazzieperth]

Spot on Elle at around 35 minutes. The situation with SILs and lack of oversight of where people are is extremely concerning. There used to be community visitors and safeguards for people with a single provider, what happened to that? As a provider (not registered) I can see how many gaps and loopholes are open for exploitation by unscrupulous or even just uninformed. Registration is not the answer - real and effective safeguarding on an individual basis, not just at organisation level, is needed.

[@drmarikabouchon7361]

Yes, the biggest problem is dealing with "disability" as a,mere statistical category in "systems" and "organisations", now increasingly ignoring that "the disabled" are not "items" in "groups" but real people with real lives and actual needs. This problem of the "systems" and "organisations" and "groups" and "corporations" has now polluted everything. It is killing people, social life, and making the manipulative & greedy very rich, and giving power to "policy makers" very ungrounded in daily life of most people to run our lives, rob us of access to resources, of freedom, of belonging.

[@apotheticallyautistic73]

Where was codesign in the PACE system?

[@SaraWalker-y1v]

Thanks! Excellent summary 😁

[@RochelleVanHeerden-st2pw]

I feel the same as Jarrod! The registration issue is concerning. And all hoops so many services will need to jump over in order to support participants. It's yet another barrier in the way of receiving support

[@mareemaxfield9022]

Thanks George. Another thought provoking podcast with quality guests. I have great concerns with registration. Some of the people who successfully support one individual and have developed a quality working relationship will not want to bother with the extra requirements. It gets too convoluted for everyone. Also, the report does not address the ever present issue of silos. One person with rare medical, neurological, disability and mental health issues is pulled in many different directions to the point of exhaustion and deterioration. They are not recognised well enough as a whole person with complex intersecting impacts and needs.

[@NoEconomyForSomeJen]

Teach the gardener via public education not by forcing high needs people to have to only use registered

[@apotheticallyautistic73]

So we can't choose to purchase low cost assistive technology from kmart, or bigw or kmart or bunnings.. im failing to see how registration even protect ls participants? I don't think it does at all.

[@mareemaxfield9022]

I think we will end up with ‘Jim’s Mowing’ style providers for everyday functional support areas, where PWD are not holding the reins.

[@drmarikabouchon7361]

Trusting disabled people - no. But trusting untrustworthy greedy businesses - oh yes, no limit!

[@RochelleVanHeerden-st2pw]

My experience is that a functional capacity assessment includes support needs assessment... Or is the recommendation more about an indepth needs assessment? An issue I have with that is, many of us do need generalised funding because it takes time to determine the exact ways to support our needs. It probably took me a year to figure it out.

[@carolyncampbell-mclean2677]

excellent commentary guys well done

[@drmarikabouchon7361]

Is anyone asking why a service may cost $50, yet when they know it is on NDIS, they charge the maximum allowed, for example $140? Registered providers: is anyone taking into account that for this reason, Disability Services is now considered a "very good business" financially to get into? Is anyone asking why Disability Service businesses charge outrageous adminstrative fees on top of their services? A support worker I had got paid $27/h, yet the company she worked for charged $110/hour. This is a firm of abuse of both the participants and the government funding - these companies pump tax payers money, disguised as helpers. Most participants. I imagine do not have the capacity to negotiate - I do not. So now I hire independent workers, not Organisations. The business behaviour of these companies/organisations should be investigated and regulated, instead of trying to cut down on people's budgets. WHY is nothing even mentioned about this?

[@CollinMullane]

Sam perfectly argued why enrolment of basic services like gardening is soooo, so important. See clip from 48 minute mark. Brilliant Sam.

[@RochelleVanHeerden-st2pw]

Did you hear what Nick said before that though? What incentive does a gardener have to become registered? None. It's already hard enough to find support.

[@Empoweredwoman1234]

People should not have to use registered providers for mainstream stuff like cooking, cleaning, gardening, and other basic household tasks. I save heaps by using mainstream or independent non registered providers and I say what they are hired to do, not them.

[@LOOPANDLINGER]

With a tap and go system how would it work for a parent who is still supporting and providing capacity building for an adult participant? Also it concerns me that this opens up the opportunity for co-payments from the participant similar to the way Medicare developed.

[@NoEconomyForSomeJen]

I am fortunate to have managed to operate on a buffer, which allows me to just use a card to pay. I believe that privacy protections need to be part of the starting assumptions but it’s off the table that is worth discussing

[@Empoweredwoman1234]

There needs to be very few categories so that people can decide for themselves how to spend their funds as long as it’s going to their needs and lifestyle. Thank God I’m self managed. I hope they don’t start assessing me to see where they can cut funds. I’m legally blind but my brain is just as clever as those assholes in politics and who work at the NDIA. They should get rid of the use it or lose it funding system.

[@RochelleVanHeerden-st2pw]

How does one share supports without sharing your home and still save funding?

[@Solar-42]

Certainly some great feedback and views you have all been able to provide on the proposals being made by the review. 1800 pages is a lot to get your head around. Sounds like a lot of work to do and choice and control is going to require some real effort and vigilance to make sure it isn't undermined.