Disability Sector Podcasts by National Disability Services (NDS)

Community participation is a significant activity funded by the NDIS, being an element in approximately 50% of all plans. In this episode we explore what is community participation and how providers can design effective supports to facilitate community participation. This episode is hosted by Fiona Still, NDS NDIS Sector Transition Manager and features Professor Christine Bigby, Director of the Living with Disability Research Centre at La Trobe University and Clover Laurier, Head of Disability Services at Outlook.

NDIS participants have the right to seek appeal of a decision made by the NDIA through the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). Listen to this episode to hear about lessons learned during NDIS planning meetings and further your understanding about what the AAT means for providers and NDIS participants. This episode was hosted by Fiona Still, NDIS Sector Transition Manager and featured our studio guest Darren O'Donovan, senior lecturer and director of engagement at La Trobe Law School and co-author of the AAT NDIS Decisions Digest.

Learn about navigating the intersection between the health services sector and the NDIS. You will hear about the findings that emerged from a joint roundtable on the case study of one NDIS participant. This episode was hosted by Sarah Fordyce, NDS’ Policy Manager, and featured Bronwyn Morkham, National Director of Young People in Nursing Homes National Alliance (YPINH), Deb Farrell, Senior Advisor at YPINH, and Fiona Still, NDS’ NDIS Sector Transition Manager.

In this episode, we focus on the changing landscape of quality and safeguard arrangements under the new NDIS Commission, commencing its operation in Victoria on 1 July 2019. A consistent national approach to quality and safeguarding ensures high quality supports and safe environments for all NDIS participants. Listen to our NDIS Sector Transition Manager, Fiona Still and NDS Victorian Quality and Safeguards Manager, Dave Relf discussing the national quality and safeguarding framework in the Australian disability sector.

In this episode we explore how Reporting on Outcomes impacts the lives of people with a disability and utilising innovation to measure outcomes. As the NDIS is fundamentally an outcomes based framework, Reporting on Outcomes is imperative in supporting participants to gain the services they need to achieve their goals such as gaining employment and living independently. It is critical that our sector knows how to accurately report on outcomes. Tune in to gain practical reporting advice from our NDIS Transition Adviser, Pascale Dreyer. You will also hear from Dr Stella Koritsas from Scope about MISO, the tool that enables service providers to measure the impact and outcomes of their services for people with a disability.

In this episode we take on one of the most convoluted issues 'transport under the NDIS'. Listeners will hear from NDIS participants and gain advice from our policy team and the transport experts from StreetFleet. By taking a collaborative approach to 'Transport under the NDIS', together we can get somewhere.

In this episode we find out what it takes to successfully support people under the NDIS to build capacity. We are joined by our studio guest, Leanne Napper, Manager of Community Inclusion and Projects at genU, one of the first providers to trial the NDIS. GenU has taken a strategic approach to capacity building, which has resulted in successful outcomes for participants in areas of employment, independent living and mainstream inclusion.

If your organisation is delivering NDIS services, it must abide by Australian Consumer Law. In this episode, David Moody and Pascale Dreyer dive deeply into exactly what this means for NDIS Participants and service providers alike.

We all have a moral, ethical and legal responsibility to actively prevent the abuse and neglect of children. The Victorian Child Safe Standards are a result of recommendations of the Betrayal of Trust inquiry and evidence of what works to prevent child abuse. In this episode, David is joined by leaders within the disability sector, including: Julie Duke, Georgina Frost and Dr Deb Absler, as they explore the practical implementation of the Victorian Child Safe Standards to protect children with disability.

Their drivers need to be your drivers: No matter what sector your organisation operates in, you need to deliver high-quality, client-centered services - that maximise value and minimise losses. To deliver services under the NDIS, you'll be adhering to the capped prices in the NDIS Price Guide, which makes operating an efficient business more important than ever... In this episode, David is joined by Clover Laurier - Manager, NDS Sector Support Consultancy and Tom Keating - National Manager, NDS Consulting, who will share their tips on orientating your organisation to the drivers of its customers and how boards and CEOs can support efficiency under the NDIS. We'll also hear from Ross Coverdale - CEO of Aurluen, and learn how his organisation developed a culture that supports innovative thinking - to create strategic partnerships that maximise value for both their organisation and their customers.