The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has rules around travel and transport, and what expenses participants can and can’t claim. The NDIA funds a range of expenses associated with provider and participant travel and transport, to help participants achieve their plan goals.
We know swift payment of invoices is essential for providers’ peace of mind – and vitally important for keeping client supports in place! However, there are often delays in processing payments because critical information is left off a claim. That’s why Kinora, My Plan Manager’s community of solutions, has launched a new channel to help you get paid quickly.
Looking to grow your capacity and achieve better outcomes from your National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan? The SKILL project just might help. SKILL – which stands for Strengthening Knowledge, Ideas, Links and Leadership – is an individual capacity building project for people with disability and their supporters.
If you’re a taxi user with disability in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria or Western Australia then you’re going to want to know about this! A dedicated disability taxi service has launched with a host of tech features that allow you to keep track of your travel spending, see your average trip costs and even nominate your preferred driver – plus much more.
It’s a difficult but necessary initiative – the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. Referred to as the Disability Royal Commission (DRC), it’s been running since 2019, and most recently completed a public hearing in Parramatta focused on people with disability who’ve experienced homelessness. Yesterday, the DRC opened its 27th public hearing in Perth. The five-day hearing will explore conditions in detention in the criminal justice system.
Have you thought about how you can best support the social and emotional wellbeing of children with disability? National not for profit organisation, Emerging Minds, has a suite of free online courses and resources designed to help foster positive mental health for children aged up to 12 years.
Since its inception, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has provided funding for people with disability who qualify for an NDIS plan. However, in order for supports to be funded by your plan, they must be a type that can, by law, be funded or provided, and they have to meet the NDIS reasonable and necessary criteria.
Voting – it’s how you have your say about who you want to represent you in local, state/territory or federal politics. You have the right to vote and your vote counts, so it’s important you’re prepared well before election day. It’s compulsory that everyone who’s eligible enrols to vote and votes on election day (or through another means). It’s also important to be enrolled well before an election so you’re eligible to vote when the time comes.
We might not have the hoverboard from Back to the Future and the flying cars from The Jetsons have yet to zoom in, but technology is opening up access in ways we wouldn’t have dreamed of in previous generations. In Apple products alone, there are tonnes of accessibility options designed to support people with disability, from vision impairment, hearing loss and deafness, through to mobility limitations and cognitive impairment.
