What we’ve done this year

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Reference Group members shared the work they have done this last year.

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This includes:

  • what they have achieved
  • how they will improve what they do.

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Members shared they are happy with the work they have done.

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But members also shared it’s important to keep working on the Council’s advice about the Voice of Children.

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Members explained supports must focus on what a family needs.

This includes when families and children with disability have more complex needs.

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Members shared that the Reference Group should include young people as members.

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Members shared that the Reference Group must keep focusing on their current work.

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Even if Reference Group members change in the future.

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Members explained that there needs to be better ways for the NDIS to work with other services.

For example, education.

Members shared that the NDIA should support young people with disability to:

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  • find the right job for them

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  • move out of home, if they want to.

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Members also shared that NDIS plans for children with disability should last for a longer time.

And that the people who make these plans need to have the skills to:

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  • make plans that work well

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  • get the best results for children and young people.