Our Reference Group connect with the community to find out about issues that affect them.

Our Reference Group Members shared these issues with the NDIA.

Young people with disability need support to find and keep a job.

And they want support for when they move from:

• learning and training
• to
• work.

There are some participants who:

• are deaf or don’t hear very well

• travel a lot.

It’s hard for them to use the supports in their NDIS plan.

And they don’t use their plans as much.

Participants also face challenges with plan reviews.

When you review something, you check to see what:

• works well
• can be better.

This includes participants getting less funding and supports in their NDIS plan.

Funding is the money from your plan that pays for the supports and services you need.

When children younger than 7 have a plan, their family doesn’t get much support to manage their plan.

Local Area Coordinators (LACs) don’t provide enough support for children and their families.

LACs are people who support people with disability when they take part in the NDIS.

The NDIA should publish information that includes children.

It’s important to let people know about how they are changing how young children get support early in their lives.

We call it the early childhood approach.

Some businesses and providers aren’t doing the right thing when they charge people for services.

Providers support other people by delivering a service.

This includes charging people more money when they find out people are participants.

The way organisations apply to take part in the Partners in the Community (PITC) program has stopped.

PITC are community organisations the NDIA works with to support participants.

People are worried this might be a problem because the PITC program provides:

• services for young children

• LAC services.

And they worry that if new businesses can’t apply for the PITC program, it will affect how they:

• find new staff to work
• promise that people’s jobs will last a long time.