Who is the NDIS working for ?

So I have had Covid and as a content creator that has put me behind but has given me a unique perspectives to see that disability services have come so far and still yet need to come further due to the fact that people seem to see that I am not disabled at all. However I realized I was when I qualified for a NDIS package.

Yet as we are coming up to the royal commission handing another report down and seeing bill shortens press club address be taken seriously and we see that people need to not fear the NDIS blow out but respect it as a warning sign of abuse and not abuse by clients but abuse by providers and them price gouging clients. I personally would be in a very difficult position without the NDIS and I know that people need to be aware of this and I am very aware that I am outing my self as disabled on line but we need to be aware that disability in business doesn’t mean difficult it can be amazing to have a different perspective on life and I am not talking about a “diversity” hire for the sake of diversity.

I am talking about a candidate that you might look over due to the fact that the are asking for accommodations. However, with planning and thought could really benefit your business to have people with a disability working in meaningful work.

I know that I would love to level up the content creation or go back to a job and would take on training to do so but my passion is for advocating for the forgotten part of the disability community, the ones that fall through the cracks, the one that received state govement funding and now are struggling to get onto the NDIS so this is people who are classified as “higher functioning,” and this meaning that they are able to do basic day to day things by themselves but might need help or guidance to do other things such as they might be able to cook a meal but might not be able to meal plan, the can access money without help but might struggle to stick to a budget or to struggle to write a shopping list including personal and house care items, or even know where to by the discounted items.

I know my self that I have had several support workers in my life and they have ranged from good to bad to amazing and left foot prints on my heart, I see that a good support worker is a great asset to a company but its not something that we see every day. I was blessed to have one who worked with me in an amazing way to get the blog and YouTube up and running and it’s a risk that I would have never considered taking.

I now live in a supported accommodation and without there assistance my budget would be a mess and my relationships would be in the same state, I see that they have been able to help in amazing ways and in ways that we see that its something that we need to talk more about as I am concerned that as they look into Supported independent accommodation ( sil homes) we see that people need to be aware that there are some amazing providers out there and that we do need to remove the bad providers. I am also a massive advocate of having person centred care but there is also a concept that is fundamental in many Sil’s is duty of care and this sometimes out ranks dignity of risk as they can’t have a client living on noodles or microwave meals and this is something that we need to be aware of and work with as there is ways to budget and bring nutrition into there lives and that might be a meal delivery service or going to the local markets or even to meal plan as a group or the local community centre might have cooking classes.

We also can’t ignore the economic impact that NDIS has had in getting people in to work or starting their own business so as I finish the post I feel that we need to ask the question who is the NDIS really working for?