Understanding the NDIS rules around registration, certification and verification is important. We have simplified the NDIS Registration Requirements for you.
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Disability service providers are facing the same constraints as commercial businesses. Struggling with where to invest to make the most difference in growth and sustainability of their organisations. Profitability, pricing and costs to ensure they deliver the best value to their clients is a constant worry. Additionally, most are also overwhelmed by data, reports, audits and administrative systems.
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For disability workers and service providers working in the NDIS, their workplace is more than somewhere to go. But the sector has a reputation of having poor staff attraction and retention issues, job insecurity, pressure to deliver services to a price, and staff churn.
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After spending the time, energy and money (blood, sweat, tears) required to become an NDIS Registered Provider, are you now scratching your head, wondering exactly how you will find your first NDIS clients?
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The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has been in operation for over 2 years now. The Commission is a body that manages registration, renewal and quality standards. It has changed the way service providers are audited and accredited.
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The growth and adoption of the NDIS by service providers and participants has once again increased. As at 30 June 2018, there were 183,965 Australians being supported by the NDIS, representing a 13 per cent growth on previous quarter. Of the 54,802 participants or almost 1 in 3, are new to the scheme and had not previously received State/Territory or Commonwealth support before the NDIS.
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A previous National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, found that one in five of Australian adults had a mental disorder in the previous 12 months and that almost half the total Australian population would experience a mental disorder at some time in their lives.
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In years to come future generations will scratch their heads and wonder aloud: Why did it take so long for us to take a quality approach to the care and well-being of people with disabilities seriously?
Despite the many millions of dollars and days Australians have donated and volunteered collectively over the decades, somehow it’s taken us until July this year to introduce a nationwide benchmark.
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The NDIS Commission recently released a set of guidelines, called the Approved Quality Auditors Scheme, to regulate the auditing of registered service providers.
An instrument of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013, the scheme gives a legal framework to the process of assessing providers for compliance against the NDIS Practice Standards.
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Competition in the NDIS marketplace for goods and services is generating some fresh realities for providers. A good working knowledge of Federal and State consumer law is now essential.
Sole traders competing to woo participants, carers and plan managers, need to stay within the parameters of laws protecting consumers from unfair trading practices.
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It’s a potentially catastrophic mistake to treat the self-assessment elements of NDIS registration as a tick-and-flick bureaucratic chore. The self-assessment questionnaire that forms part of the application process is daunting and requires some homework and preparation, as you would expect from a Quality standard as rigorous as the NDIS has implemented.
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Human rights underpin the NDIS legislation and are the foundation on which the shift to the self-directed, person-centred approach is grounded. In the past disability care has had an uneven power base. Now it’s the participant who has the power. Disability support providers need to work with the needs of the participant in this new person-centred and customer-centric ethos of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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The future and present employment prospects of thousands of Australians are being transformed by the NDIS, figures show. Disability care is taking the crown that once adorned the mining boom.
Even with the NDIS fully rolled out in only two states (NSW and South Australia), more than 14,271 service providers are now approved to deliver disability supports. This is an increase of 64% since 30 June 2017.
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There’s a new dawn for disability care in Australia, but the horizon remains unclear for service providers.
The Quality and Safeguarding Framework (QSF) will eventually yield a nationally consistent set of standards governing the procurement and provision of services funded by the NDIS. But it is still a work in progress, with many of its components under review.
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Registration to the NDIS has been available since June 2016 to most service providers, who at that time were regulated by their state or territory.
The National Quality and Safeguarding Framework (QSF) was launched in July 2018 to supersede this localised approach in which the NDIA was registrar for applications.
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A psychologist, a dietician and a social worker walk into a pub…
Well, no. That joke wouldn’t work, according to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Because they are more or less the same thing.
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The long-cherished aspiration to have consistent quality in service standards Australia-wide in the disability sector, will soon start to become a reality.
The NDIS is hoping to provide a smooth transition for service-providers when its new Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission) rolls out in NSW and SA after July 1.
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There are plenty of news stories on people with disability being left out of pocket, anxious and even hospitalised due to the stress of dealing with the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
But the people with a disability are not the only ones suffering - the service-providers endure a bureaucratic nightmare just to get paid, too.
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According to the National Disability Insurance Agency there is expected to be huge growth in the number of NDIS service providers and only the most effective and efficient will be viable. Today there are over 100,000 people with Disabilities on the NDIS and predictions are for over 400,000. There are currently 11,000+ service providers now and the expectation is that there will be a quadrupling of the number of providers, employing some 70,000 staff. Using the same growth factor, massive change is coming.
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The change to the NDIS in the disability services provider market within Australia has forced providers to look at their viability and quality standards, and organisations must adapt to a new person-centric business model or perish.
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