26/11/2024
📢📢 Art and Music Therapy in the firing line 📢📢
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UPDATE: https://ndis.gov.au/news/10522-statement-ndis-funded-music-and-art-therapy
While we have no official word in public from the NDIS, we know that the NDIS have told the peak professional bodies for Art and Music Therapy that from February, 1:1 art and music therapy will no longer be allowed to be claimed by any NDIS participant unless the provider is registered and in that case only at the support worker rate.
We have been told this is an “evidence based decision”.
I call on the NDIS to share both
a) the evidence considered, as well as
b) the process used to make this determination,
It is my understanding that the NDIS Evidence Advisory Committee (which was recommended by the NDIS Review) DOES NOT YET EXIST and will not be in operation until July 2025. https://www.dss.gov.au/disability-and-carers-programs-services-ndis-reforms/ndis-evidence-advisory-committee
Both professional bodies have made public statements regarding their shock and dismay at both the decision, and the original timeframe (since amended from less than a week to now starting from February) for thousands of NDIS participants to be without the service of their members’, many of whose businesses and livelihoods will effectively cease to exist in a sustainable way after February.
A EasySnap read of this post, as well as Communications from the peak bodies are in the comments below.
Please take action and contact your local MP, Minister Bill Shorten's office and feedback at NDIA.
pic desc: a sad looking person in a wheelchair looking at a drumkit, and his drumsticks out of reach on the ground.
