Support Collective

30/07/2025

📣 Paid Opportunities to Share Your Experience with the NDIS
Two new opportunities are open for NDIS participants, families and carers to get involved and be heard.

You will be paid for your time!

💬 1. Help Design the Future Navigator Service
The NDIA is creating a new role called a Navigator to help people find and use everyday, community and NDIS supports.
They are inviting participants and families to join paid focus groups and share your ideas to help shape this new service.

🧭 Navigators will support people to connect with the right services and build confidence to navigate the system.

Expressions of Interest close Sunday 3 August
Focus groups will run from 14 August to 23 September 2025

They are especially keen to hear from people in regional or remote areas, First Nations communities, and parents or carers of children under 9 on the NDIS.

Apply here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ZYt3zS11SkWHz7mZD-WJk-jAOFg6XhxKm37Twmil4xtUQ1lEQTlaRTkzSlk1U1NENlk5MjI4RDFMWiQlQCN0PWcu

💬 2. Share Your Experience with Support Coordination
If you have a Support Coordinator funded in your plan, the NDIA wants to hear what’s working, what isn’t, and what you would like to see improved.

They are running paid focus groups to hear directly from participants, plan nominees and carers who use Level 2 or 3 Support Coordination.

Expressions of Interest close Sunday 3 August
You will be contacted by Thursday 7 August

Apply here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ZYt3zS11SkWHz7mZD-WJk-jAOFg6XhxKm37Twmil4xtUOUs1NjdDWkdNNk9VS0dYVDlSV1dLUEJZNiQlQCN0PWcu

10/07/2025

Introduction by Croakey: The Federal Government's pricing changes to the NDIS will hurt the quality of services for people living with

09/07/2025

The Saturday Paper reported on 5th July, that NDIA CEO Rebecca Falkingham allegedly intervened to remove a participant from the scheme following negative press attention, without a formal investigation. That participant, who lives with psychosocial and neurological disability, was later reinstated with more disabilities recognised than originally recorded.

If this report is accurate, it raises serious concerns about due process, participant rights, and the integrity of the NDIS.

The NDIA Board must respond publicly. Ongoing silence only erodes trust further, at a time when confidence in the scheme is already fragile.

As providers and advocates, we need to see:
- A clear and transparent response from the NDIA Board
- Immediate reassurance that participant eligibility is not being influenced by media scrutiny or internal bias
- Strong safeguards to prevent any future misuse of power

The NDIS is meant to be participant-led, not politically reactive.

We are watching, and we expect better.

The whole story.

09/07/2025

NDIS Funding Changes: Why We’re Concerned
On May 19, new NDIS funding rules came into effect — and many in our community are worried.

These changes mean most supports will now be released in smaller chunks over time, rather than being fully available at the start of a plan. While the goal is to manage budgets more carefully, this shift is already causing issues: rejected claims, disrupted services, and extra admin stress for participants and families.

Every Australian Counts and over 70 disability rights organisations have released a powerful joint statement calling for the rollout to pause and for co-designed solutions that put people first. We stand with them.

💬 If these changes are affecting you or someone you support, speak up. This is the time for our voices to be heard.

📄 Read the joint statement here:
https://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/joint-statement-on-new-ndis-funding-periods-from-every-australian-counts-and-disability-rights-organisations/

Every Australian Counts is here to make sure the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is delivered as promised and is the best it can be. Find out how the NDIS process works and hear real stories from people who have been through the process, and keep up to date with the NDIS rollout with lat...

07/07/2025

A single mum of two boys with autism faces an uphill battle following the NDIS’ latest move, with many other anguished parents also having similar fears. See what services are affected.

30/06/2025

Let’s be clear about NDIS National Disability Insurance Scheme Pricing:

📉 Prices are being cut in real terms for a 7th year in a row.

❌ NDIS is not passing on the Fair Work Commission wage increase.

🙅‍♀️ These changes were made behind closed doors. People with disability, their families, and the providers who support them were not consulted.

🛑 Critical supports are being devalued.

🚨 Support Coordination and Plan Management Prices are not based on a cost model and have not benchmark against like services in Aged Care, Workplace Accident Schemes and Vehicle Accident Schemes.

Support Coordinators and Plan Managers aren't optional! They are essential.
They support participants navigate a increasingly bureaucratic system, exercise their choice, amplify their voice, build capacity and ensure NDIS participants actually get the support they need.

We need transparency. We need fairness. We need a system that listens. We must

DIA urgently calls on the National Disability Insurance Agency to do the right thing and take immediate action:

1️⃣ Pass on the 3.5% wage and 0.5% superannuation increase to Support Coordination and Plan Management pricing immediately (from 1 July);

2️⃣ Reverse the cuts to establishment fees and rural/remote loading for Plan Management services;

3️⃣ Reverse the cuts to provider travel so that services can be delivered in community settings not just clinics;

4️⃣ Implement an independent price authority. Only an independent pricing authority can set a transparent pricing model that accurately reflects the true cost of service delivery, including wage pressures, compliance costs, and the value of these services.

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29/06/2025

🛑📢Calling all NDIS Participants!!! Your supports are under threat 🛑📢

Support Coordination and Plan Management are essential, not optional. But the NDIA has made funding decisions without consulting the people who matter most, YOU!!

💬 Prices are being cut
💸 Wage increases are not being passed on
🙅 Services are being devalued

It’s time to speak up and be heard.

👉 Visit www.intermediaries.org.au/save-our-supports-participants
- link in bio - to learn more about what’s happening, and most importantly take action by emailing your MP and the NDIA directly using the easy to fill email template.

It only takes a minute. Your voice matters. Let them know we won’t be ignored. 💥

📢 Share your story.
📢 Raise your voice.
📢 Demand fairness.

Your support matters. Your voice matters.

29/06/2025

Let’s be clear about NDIS National Disability Insurance Scheme Pricing:

📉 Prices are being cut in real terms for a 7th year in a row.

❌ NDIS is not passing on the Fair Work Commission wage increase.

🙅‍♀️ These changes were made behind closed doors. People with disability, their families, and the providers who support them were not consulted.

🛑 Critical supports are being devalued.

🚨 Support Coordination and Plan Management Prices are not based on a cost model and have not benchmark against like services in Aged Care, Workplace Accident Schemes and Vehicle Accident Schemes.

Support Coordinators and Plan Managers aren't optional! They are essential.
They support participants navigate a increasingly bureaucratic system, exercise their choice, amplify their voice, build capacity and ensure NDIS participants actually get the support they need.

We need transparency. We need fairness. We need a system that listens. We must

DIA urgently calls on the National Disability Insurance Agency to do the right thing and take immediate action:

1️⃣ Pass on the 3.5% wage and 0.5% superannuation increase to Support Coordination and Plan Management pricing immediately (from 1 July);

2️⃣ Reverse the cuts to establishment fees and rural/remote loading for Plan Management services;

3️⃣ Reverse the cuts to provider travel so that services can be delivered in community settings not just clinics;

4️⃣ Implement an independent price authority. Only an independent pricing authority can set a transparent pricing model that accurately reflects the true cost of service delivery, including wage pressures, compliance costs, and the value of these services.

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28/06/2025

Canberra therapy providers say looming changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme are "devastating", forcing some to reduce their fees and leaving others staring down another year with no price increase.

25/06/2025

23/06/2025

🚨 NDIS price caps are changing from 1 July and Senator Jordon Steele-John is asking how it will impact us.

This is our chance to be heard. If you’re a support coordinator, provider, participant or family, go to his post and share your experience.

The NDIA needs to hear what’s really happening on the ground.

Let’s flood the comments.

07/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day!

Today, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and impact of women—especially those shaping a more inclusive disability sector.