Important updates

The NDIA’s co-design work

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Council talked about the NDIA’s co-design projects.

Co-design is when people work together to plan something new.

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Council Members talked about the work the NDIA has done about supported decision making.

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Supported decision making is when someone helps you make important decisions about your life.

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The NDIA has done a good job:

  • talking to the disability community
  • working with the disability community.

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Council Members shared their ideas about the Participant Safety co-design.

They will meet with the NDIA to talk about this more.

They want to make sure this work is right.

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We will share more about the progress with the NDIA.

Our advice about listening to children and young people

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We are writing advice for the NDIA about listening to children and young people.

Council Members shared their ideas.

They explained that our advice should:

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  • think about how a person might take part in the NDIS at different times in their life

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  • help parents give their children choice and control

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  • help the NDIA hear what children and young people have to say

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  • think about how the NDIA can include the voices of children and young people.

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Our advice should help LACs support children and young people in the right way.

And make sure children, young people and families can find and use:

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  • services that meet their needs

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  • information about what they can expect.

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Our advice should also think about other ways governments can support children and young people with disability.

It doesn’t always have to be the NDIS.

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Council Members also explained that sometimes more funding and services don’t make things better for children and young people.

Our guide about intersectionality

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Council Members also shared their ideas about our guide for the NDIA about intersectionality.

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Intersectionality is when people are different in more than one way.

They might be treated differently for each of the things about them they can’t change.

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Council wants to be a leader in intersectionality.

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Council Members explained how our guide should think about people who have experienced trauma.

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Trauma is something bad that happens to you that can make you feel:

  • scared
  • stressed
  • worried.

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We should also use real stories to explain what participants experience.

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Council Members also explained that we should make sure to give our guide in plain English.

This will make it easier for people to understand, including people:

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  • with disability

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  • from different backgrounds.

The NDIA’s work on complex supports

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Council Members are happy with the NDIA’s work to help participants when they leave hospital.

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The NDIA wants to decide how to support a participant leaving hospital within 30 days.

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But the community want a shorter time.

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Council Members worry about where participants go when they leave hospital.

Sometimes the NDIA puts participants in housing that doesn’t meet their needs.

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Council Members shared how the NDIA could look at ideas that work well.

Like the Disability Liaison Officers in Victoria.

They also shared that the NDIA should share information about complex supports in:

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  • plain English

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  • Easy Read.

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Council Members shared ideas about a health passport for participants.

A health passport has information that a participant wants health professionals to know.

This includes information about their:

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  • health

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  • choices.