Update on the NDIS and child protection

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Child protection helps children stay safe.

The government runs child protection.

Child protection can decide if a child:

  • is not safe in their home
  • must live with someone else.

People from the NDIA explained how the NDIS:

An NDIA worker and a child protection worker shaking hands.

  • works with child protection

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  • shares information with child protection in different states and territories.

A group of people working together on documents at a desk.

Reference Group members shared that organisations need to work with each other.

They should work with each other to better plan the futures of children with disability.

A plan document with a picture of a young person on it, and a pencil writing on it. Above the document is a calendar with an arrow pointing forward.

Child protection services and the NDIA should make plans for the future of young people.

They should make these plans at least one year before young people turn 18 years old.

2 upset First Nations parents with a child protection icon above them.

Members shared that some First Nations families worry about child protection.

They worry that if they ask for more NDIS supports, the NDIA might contact child protection.

A worker writing on a clipboard with icons of children above them.

Members explained it’s important to collect information on how many children with disability have contact with child protection.

It’s also important that this information is right.