#disabilitysupport — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disabilitysupport, aggregated by home.social.
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🚨💔 My daughter Roya dreams of taking her first steps.
There is a rehabilitation center in Gaza, but I cannot afford the cost of her therapy. Your support can help Roya receive the care she needs in Gaza or access treatment outside Gaza.
❤️ Donate if you can. 🔁 Share this post. 💬 Comment with a message of hope. ➕ Follow for updates.
🔗 Link in bio.
#SaveRoya #Gaza #HopeForRoya #DisabilitySupport -
🚨💔 My daughter Roya dreams of taking her first steps.
There is a rehabilitation center in Gaza, but I cannot afford the cost of her therapy. Your support can help Roya receive the care she needs in Gaza or access treatment outside Gaza.
❤️ Donate if you can. 🔁 Share this post. 💬 Comment with a message of hope. ➕ Follow for updates.
🔗 Link in bio.
#SaveRoya #Gaza #HopeForRoya #DisabilitySupport -
"So we had our first Needs Assessment under the NASC Autism pathway, referred by the ASD coordinator at our paeds department after our diagnosis. And our blatantly burnt out, well-intentioned, but refreshingly honest Needs Assessor informed my support person and I that the funding pot is completely empty."
#ScoutBarbourEvans, 2025
https://kahukurascout.substack.com/p/at-least-one-large-disability-support
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"So we had our first Needs Assessment under the NASC Autism pathway, referred by the ASD coordinator at our paeds department after our diagnosis. And our blatantly burnt out, well-intentioned, but refreshingly honest Needs Assessor informed my support person and I that the funding pot is completely empty."
#ScoutBarbourEvans, 2025
https://kahukurascout.substack.com/p/at-least-one-large-disability-support
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Hey turbo dweebs. Is there a UK version of something like this?
Ideally either no subscription fees, no connectivity required, and definitely good privacy, idfk.
At the very least, is there a DIY or open source of something similar?https://elliq.com/pages/how-it-works
#tech #accessibility #Disability #DisabilityAdvocacy #help #support #aide #assist #assistant #assistance #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilitySupport #MedTech #technology #NeuroDivergent #NeuroDivergence #NeuroDiversity #NeuroDiverse #ND #NeuroTypical #NeuroDefault #NeuroExpected #NeuroAccomodated #NeuroAllowed #NeuroAccepted #NeuroInclusion #nerds #nerd #nerdy #DorkWeb #NerdTalk #tool #tools #elderly #ElderCare #isolate #isolation #loneliness
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Hey turbo dweebs. Is there a UK version of something like this?
Ideally either no subscription fees, no connectivity required, and definitely good privacy, idfk.
At the very least, is there a DIY or open source of something similar?https://elliq.com/pages/how-it-works
#tech #accessibility #Disability #DisabilityAdvocacy #help #support #aide #assist #assistant #assistance #DisabilityAwareness #DisabilitySupport #MedTech #technology #NeuroDivergent #NeuroDivergence #NeuroDiversity #NeuroDiverse #ND #NeuroTypical #NeuroDefault #NeuroExpected #NeuroAccomodated #NeuroAllowed #NeuroAccepted #NeuroInclusion #nerds #nerd #nerdy #DorkWeb #NerdTalk #tool #tools #elderly #ElderCare #isolate #isolation #loneliness
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Anyone Can Be Your NDIS Support Worker. Who Is Keeping You Safe?
Reflections from several years on the scheme.
I have been on the NDIS for several years. A recent re-hiring process clarified something I had long suspected. The scheme has a workforce problem, and participants are the ones bearing the brunt.
There Is No Mandatory Registration Requirement
Under current Australian law, participants who self-manage or plan-manage their NDIS funding can hire any person as a support worker. Independent support Workers require no registration or minimum training standards.
The worker who enters your home, learns your medical history, handles your medications, and has significant authority over your daily life may have no formal preparation for any of it.
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission exists and handles serious complaints, including abuse, neglect, and criminal conduct. Boundary violations, confidentiality breaches, and chronic unpreparedness that fall below that threshold leave participants largely without recourse. Skilled and ethical workers bring those qualities from their own formation and prior training. When those qualities are absent, the participant discovers this after the fact, and any remedy is slow, uncertain, and theirs alone to pursue.
That is the baseline. Everything that follows is built on it.
The Dog
My service dog performs specific medical functions. His effectiveness depends on remaining focused and oriented to me.
Some workers reach for him the moment they walk through the door. They do not ask.
Touching a service animal without permission is a safety violation and, in some contexts, carries legal weight under Australian disability discrimination law. A worker entering the home of a participant with a service animal has a professional obligation to understand what that animal does and what it requires. That preparation belongs to the provider. Its absence transfers the risk to the participant.
This is a professional standard.
What the Certificate III Does Not Cover
The Certificate III in Individual Support is the standard qualification in this sector and takes between six and twelve months. For many workers, it is completed online with minimal supervised practice hours, and it does not prepare them for the clinical and ethical complexity of supporting people with invisible or fluctuating conditions.
A worker with their cert may have no framework for how fatigue functions in ME/CFS or autistic burnout. Why pushing through is sometimes dangerous, why capacity varies day to day in ways that cannot be read from a plan approved six months ago, and why the participant’s account of their own condition is the primary source of accurate information.
Workers who arrive without that preparation fill the gap with assumptions. Correcting those assumptions, educating the person sent to support them, translating their own experience into terms the worker finds legible — this falls to the participant. That work is skilled and exhausting, and no NDIS plan funds it.
A Plan Is Not a Person
An NDIS plan records approved supports, written at a point in time by a planner who may have spent an hour with the participant. What it cannot capture is what a Tuesday looks like after a bad night, or how that changes what Wednesday can hold.
Workers who treat the plan as a complete picture end up supporting the document. When the participant’s actual day diverges from what the plan implies, some workers become confused, inflexible, or subtly sceptical. The participant then carries that response throughout the day.
Confidentiality Is Not Discretionary
Support workers enter your home and learn about your health, medications, finances, and relationships. The ethical obligations around that information are clear. Workers routinely underestimate them.
Information moves in cars and waiting rooms, in casual exchanges during handover. Shared without consent in contexts the participant did not choose, each instance is a breach — and the pattern across a working relationship represents a significant, under-reported ethical problem in the sector.
Providers who do not train explicitly for this are not taking their duty of care seriously. The Commission’s framework addresses the most serious breaches. Below that threshold, the everyday end goes largely unmonitored.
A Diagnosis Is a Starting Point
Workers who arrive having already decided how a participant communicates — based on a diagnostic label rather than a conversation — are making a category error with professional consequences.
Autism produces significant variation across individuals, as do acquired brain injury, cerebral palsy, and many mental health conditions. Experience with one person transfers little to the next. The participant is the authority on their own communication and needs. Workers who approach that through the filter of what they already think they know require the participant to work harder to be accurately seen.
Being Present Is the Job
A worker on their phone during support hours has decided where their attention belongs. That decision reflects on the worker and the provider, and on a regulatory environment that permits it without consequence.
Participant time is funded. Divided attention during that time is a failure of basic professional conduct.
Punctuality Has Clinical Stakes
For participants with fatigue conditions, medication schedules, or appointment windows that cannot flex, a late worker is sometimes no worker at all. The window closes, an appointment is missed, and the energy available at nine o’clock is gone by ten.
Workers who treat punctuality as a matter of general courtesy have not been told what the costs of late arrival are in this context. Providers should tell them, in writing, before they begin.
Handover Exists for a Reason
When workers do not read handover notes, participants repeat themselves. Questions get asked that the notes had already answered. Avoidable errors get made. The first portion of support time becomes unpaid orientation, delivered by the person the support was supposed to serve.
Reading the handover is the floor — it signals that a worker understands preparation begins before they arrive.
The Re-Hiring Process
When a support worker leaves, the participant does not simply wait for a replacement. A position description must be written, applications reviewed, interviews conducted, and a hiring decision made with incomplete information about a person who will have access to their home, their medical records, and significant portions of their daily life.
After that comes orientation, and the contextual knowledge that made the previous support functional has to be rebuilt from the beginning.
None of this is funded. The NDIS has no category for the labour of maintaining access to support, and for participants with high support needs or complex conditions, that labour is substantial.
What Competent Support Looks Like
Workers who are good at this job arrive having read the available documentation, ask before they act, and give more weight to what the participant tells them about their own needs than to any plan or file. When something changes during a shift, the response is immediate and adaptive.
Their presence does not generate additional work for the participant — that is the measure. Support that requires the participant to manage, educate, or compensate for a worker’s preparation gaps has redistributed the load rather than reduced it.
What Needs to Change
Mandatory registration for all NDIS workers, regardless of how a participant’s plan is managed, would create a baseline of accountability. Genuine consequences for ethical breaches — including low-level, chronic ones — would change the conditions under which workers operate.
Revised training requirements are long overdue: supervised hours in complex support settings, explicit coverage of invisible conditions, service animal protocols, confidentiality obligations, and fluctuating capacity. These are the preparations the role demands.
Wages need to rise. Turnover in this sector is directly linked to pay, and the continuity of support is a safety condition for many participants — the relationship carries clinical knowledge that cannot be quickly or cheaply reconstructed.
Participants also need a complaints mechanism they can use without fear of losing their support. Accountability cannot depend on participants absorbing the risk of speaking up.
The Principle and the Practice
Participant choice and control sit at the centre of the NDIS. On paper, participants are experts in their own lives and directors of their own support.
That principle requires a workforce framework capable of supporting it. At present, workers enter participants’ lives with significant authority over their access, safety, and daily functioning, operating under training requirements and accountability mechanisms that do not match the weight of what they are being asked to do.
Positioned at the centre of a scheme designed around their needs, the participant often ends up holding the system together when it fails to hold itself together.
That is worth saying clearly, and worth changing.
Share this with someone who trains support workers, manages a disability provider, or influences workforce policy. The problem is documented. The changes required are known. What is missing is the will to treat this workforce and the people it serves with the seriousness they both deserve. #NDIS #DisabilityRights #DisabilitySupport #SupportWorkers #DisabledPeople #DisabilityAdvocacy #Accessibility #AusPol #Australia
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Anyone Can Be Your NDIS Support Worker. Who Is Keeping You Safe?
Reflections from several years on the scheme.
I have been on the NDIS for several years. A recent re-hiring process clarified something I had long suspected. The scheme has a workforce problem, and participants are the ones bearing the brunt.
There Is No Mandatory Registration Requirement
Under current Australian law, participants who self-manage or plan-manage their NDIS funding can hire any person as a support worker. Independent support Workers require no registration or minimum training standards.
The worker who enters your home, learns your medical history, handles your medications, and has significant authority over your daily life may have no formal preparation for any of it.
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission exists and handles serious complaints, including abuse, neglect, and criminal conduct. Boundary violations, confidentiality breaches, and chronic unpreparedness that fall below that threshold leave participants largely without recourse. Skilled and ethical workers bring those qualities from their own formation and prior training. When those qualities are absent, the participant discovers this after the fact, and any remedy is slow, uncertain, and theirs alone to pursue.
That is the baseline. Everything that follows is built on it.
The Dog
My service dog performs specific medical functions. His effectiveness depends on remaining focused and oriented to me.
Some workers reach for him the moment they walk through the door. They do not ask.
Touching a service animal without permission is a safety violation and, in some contexts, carries legal weight under Australian disability discrimination law. A worker entering the home of a participant with a service animal has a professional obligation to understand what that animal does and what it requires. That preparation belongs to the provider. Its absence transfers the risk to the participant.
This is a professional standard.
What the Certificate III Does Not Cover
The Certificate III in Individual Support is the standard qualification in this sector and takes between six and twelve months. For many workers, it is completed online with minimal supervised practice hours, and it does not prepare them for the clinical and ethical complexity of supporting people with invisible or fluctuating conditions.
A worker with their cert may have no framework for how fatigue functions in ME/CFS or autistic burnout. Why pushing through is sometimes dangerous, why capacity varies day to day in ways that cannot be read from a plan approved six months ago, and why the participant’s account of their own condition is the primary source of accurate information.
Workers who arrive without that preparation fill the gap with assumptions. Correcting those assumptions, educating the person sent to support them, translating their own experience into terms the worker finds legible — this falls to the participant. That work is skilled and exhausting, and no NDIS plan funds it.
A Plan Is Not a Person
An NDIS plan records approved supports, written at a point in time by a planner who may have spent an hour with the participant. What it cannot capture is what a Tuesday looks like after a bad night, or how that changes what Wednesday can hold.
Workers who treat the plan as a complete picture end up supporting the document. When the participant’s actual day diverges from what the plan implies, some workers become confused, inflexible, or subtly sceptical. The participant then carries that response throughout the day.
Confidentiality Is Not Discretionary
Support workers enter your home and learn about your health, medications, finances, and relationships. The ethical obligations around that information are clear. Workers routinely underestimate them.
Information moves in cars and waiting rooms, in casual exchanges during handover. Shared without consent in contexts the participant did not choose, each instance is a breach — and the pattern across a working relationship represents a significant, under-reported ethical problem in the sector.
Providers who do not train explicitly for this are not taking their duty of care seriously. The Commission’s framework addresses the most serious breaches. Below that threshold, the everyday end goes largely unmonitored.
A Diagnosis Is a Starting Point
Workers who arrive having already decided how a participant communicates — based on a diagnostic label rather than a conversation — are making a category error with professional consequences.
Autism produces significant variation across individuals, as do acquired brain injury, cerebral palsy, and many mental health conditions. Experience with one person transfers little to the next. The participant is the authority on their own communication and needs. Workers who approach that through the filter of what they already think they know require the participant to work harder to be accurately seen.
Being Present Is the Job
A worker on their phone during support hours has decided where their attention belongs. That decision reflects on the worker and the provider, and on a regulatory environment that permits it without consequence.
Participant time is funded. Divided attention during that time is a failure of basic professional conduct.
Punctuality Has Clinical Stakes
For participants with fatigue conditions, medication schedules, or appointment windows that cannot flex, a late worker is sometimes no worker at all. The window closes, an appointment is missed, and the energy available at nine o’clock is gone by ten.
Workers who treat punctuality as a matter of general courtesy have not been told what the costs of late arrival are in this context. Providers should tell them, in writing, before they begin.
Handover Exists for a Reason
When workers do not read handover notes, participants repeat themselves. Questions get asked that the notes had already answered. Avoidable errors get made. The first portion of support time becomes unpaid orientation, delivered by the person the support was supposed to serve.
Reading the handover is the floor — it signals that a worker understands preparation begins before they arrive.
The Re-Hiring Process
When a support worker leaves, the participant does not simply wait for a replacement. A position description must be written, applications reviewed, interviews conducted, and a hiring decision made with incomplete information about a person who will have access to their home, their medical records, and significant portions of their daily life.
After that comes orientation, and the contextual knowledge that made the previous support functional has to be rebuilt from the beginning.
None of this is funded. The NDIS has no category for the labour of maintaining access to support, and for participants with high support needs or complex conditions, that labour is substantial.
What Competent Support Looks Like
Workers who are good at this job arrive having read the available documentation, ask before they act, and give more weight to what the participant tells them about their own needs than to any plan or file. When something changes during a shift, the response is immediate and adaptive.
Their presence does not generate additional work for the participant — that is the measure. Support that requires the participant to manage, educate, or compensate for a worker’s preparation gaps has redistributed the load rather than reduced it.
What Needs to Change
Mandatory registration for all NDIS workers, regardless of how a participant’s plan is managed, would create a baseline of accountability. Genuine consequences for ethical breaches — including low-level, chronic ones — would change the conditions under which workers operate.
Revised training requirements are long overdue: supervised hours in complex support settings, explicit coverage of invisible conditions, service animal protocols, confidentiality obligations, and fluctuating capacity. These are the preparations the role demands.
Wages need to rise. Turnover in this sector is directly linked to pay, and the continuity of support is a safety condition for many participants — the relationship carries clinical knowledge that cannot be quickly or cheaply reconstructed.
Participants also need a complaints mechanism they can use without fear of losing their support. Accountability cannot depend on participants absorbing the risk of speaking up.
The Principle and the Practice
Participant choice and control sit at the centre of the NDIS. On paper, participants are experts in their own lives and directors of their own support.
That principle requires a workforce framework capable of supporting it. At present, workers enter participants’ lives with significant authority over their access, safety, and daily functioning, operating under training requirements and accountability mechanisms that do not match the weight of what they are being asked to do.
Positioned at the centre of a scheme designed around their needs, the participant often ends up holding the system together when it fails to hold itself together.
That is worth saying clearly, and worth changing.
Share this with someone who trains support workers, manages a disability provider, or influences workforce policy. The problem is documented. The changes required are known. What is missing is the will to treat this workforce and the people it serves with the seriousness they both deserve. #NDIS #DisabilityRights #DisabilitySupport #SupportWorkers #DisabledPeople #DisabilityAdvocacy #Accessibility #AusPol #Australia
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Hughes Unleashes Expletive-Laden Tirade Over NDIS Reductions
Australia's NDIS faces major changes. Up to 160,000 people could lose support by 2028. Find out how these budget cuts affect participants.
#NDIS #DisabilitySupport #Australia #BudgetCuts #NDISChanges
https://newsletter.tf/australian-ndis-cuts-160000-lose-support/
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Up to 160,000 Australians might lose NDIS support by 2028. This is a large number of people who rely on the scheme for daily living.
#NDIS #DisabilitySupport #Australia #BudgetCuts #NDISChanges
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Radical Reshaping of NDIS Unveiled, Eligibility Overhaul Looms
Australia's NDIS is changing eligibility and funding. Over 160,000 people may lose support. Find out how it affects you.
#NDISChanges, #AustraliaDisability, #NDISFunding, #DisabilitySupport, #NDISAustralia
https://newsletter.tf/australia-ndis-eligibility-funding-changes-2026/
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Australia's NDIS is changing. Over 160,000 people might lose support, a big change from the original plan.
#NDISChanges, #AustraliaDisability, #NDISFunding, #DisabilitySupport, #NDISAustralia
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Today was an interesting day. I’m in the process of finding a new support worker and interviewed three potential candidates.
The first was very ableist, describing my studies and music as “inspirational” and “wonderful.” She also claimed she could guarantee the car for my guide dog, saying she only uses one specific car for dogs.
After that, I went for a short walk and had a baked potato with coleslaw and salad for lunch.
The second interview felt like a potential match. A lovely young woman with several years in community support, currently looking for some extra work.
The third was an older woman who seemed to have significant challenges of her own. She has experience in case management, but after leaving that role moved into support work. She appeared quite directionless and, at least from my perspective, may be struggling mentally.
I’m exhausted from the whole process today. Dinner is a hamburger with the lot. Tomorrow I’ll sleep in and rest.
#DisabilitySupport #NDIS #SupportWorkerSearch #ChronicIllness #AuDHD #Blind #GuideDog
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Today was an interesting day. I’m in the process of finding a new support worker and interviewed three potential candidates.
The first was very ableist, describing my studies and music as “inspirational” and “wonderful.” She also claimed she could guarantee the car for my guide dog, saying she only uses one specific car for dogs.
After that, I went for a short walk and had a baked potato with coleslaw and salad for lunch.
The second interview felt like a potential match. A lovely young woman with several years in community support, currently looking for some extra work.
The third was an older woman who seemed to have significant challenges of her own. She has experience in case management, but after leaving that role moved into support work. She appeared quite directionless and, at least from my perspective, may be struggling mentally.
I’m exhausted from the whole process today. Dinner is a hamburger with the lot. Tomorrow I’ll sleep in and rest.
#DisabilitySupport #NDIS #SupportWorkerSearch #ChronicIllness #AuDHD #Blind #GuideDog
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NDIS Overhaul Sparks State-Federal Friction, Participant Concerns
New NDIS eligibility changes could remove 160,000 people from the scheme. NSW expects 53,000 participants to be affected, raising concerns about state support.
#NDISChanges, #DisabilitySupport, #NSWPolitics, #NDISReform, #ParticipantConcerns
https://newsletter.tf/ndis-eligibility-cuts-nsw-faces-53000-affected/
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New NDIS eligibility rules could impact 160,000 Australians. New South Wales alone expects around 53,000 people to lose support, which is about one-third of the total.
#NDISChanges, #DisabilitySupport, #NSWPolitics, #NDISReform, #ParticipantConcerns
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GOVERNMENT MOVES TO TIGHTEN NATIONAL DISABILITY INSURANCE SCHEME
Australia's NDIS is changing. 160,000 people will be removed, and budgets will be cut for others. Find out how this affects you.
#NDISchanges, #AustraliaBudget, #DisabilitySupport, #GovernmentPolicy, #JimChalmers
https://newsletter.tf/australia-ndis-changes-budget-cuts-people-removed/
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The Australian government is changing the NDIS. Around 160,000 people will no longer be eligible, and budgets for the remaining 600,000 participants will be reduced.
#NDISchanges, #AustraliaBudget, #DisabilitySupport, #GovernmentPolicy, #JimChalmers
https://newsletter.tf/australia-ndis-changes-budget-cuts-people-removed/ -
Privatised parasites!
Listen to Konrad...
#australia #NDIS #disabilitysupport #privatisation #fraud #scam https://youtu.be/DCskboUueJU?si=zfix9rZWntLm2tFL -
Privatised parasites!
Listen to Konrad...
#australia #NDIS #disabilitysupport #privatisation #fraud #scam https://youtu.be/DCskboUueJU?si=zfix9rZWntLm2tFL -
The outrage over NDIS spending always skips the actual history.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme was launched in 2013 under Julia Gillard’s Labor government. It was meant to be a proper nation-building fix for the old, broken, postcode lottery system we had before — a universal, needs-based public scheme instead of relying on charity or state scraps.
But it started going sideways under the Coalition. They pushed hard for a market-driven model: lots of private providers, plan managers, and middlemen instead of strong public delivery.Predictably, that brought:
* extra layers of bureaucracy
* profit margins siphoned off
* wildly inconsistent quality
* and huge cost blowouts that had nothing to do with actual careEven the critics now admit that admin overhead, coordination fees and plan managers are swallowing massive chunks of the money.
Meanwhile the scheme grew faster than anyone planned, because hundreds of thousands of people actually need the support.So when folks blast “Labor spending” on the NDIS, they’re conveniently ignoring two things:
1) This isn’t optional fluff — it’s real people’s lives and daily support.
2) A lot of the structural waste and inefficiency was built in when it was turned into a quasi-market experiment.Now both sides are desperately trying to rein in costs as the bill heads towards $50 billion+ a year.
#ndis #disability #australianpolitics #ndisscheme #disabilityrights #labor #coalition #welfare #publicservices #costofliving #australia #political #socialjustice #disabilitysupport #ndiscosts
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The outrage over NDIS spending always skips the actual history.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme was launched in 2013 under Julia Gillard’s Labor government. It was meant to be a proper nation-building fix for the old, broken, postcode lottery system we had before — a universal, needs-based public scheme instead of relying on charity or state scraps.
But it started going sideways under the Coalition. They pushed hard for a market-driven model: lots of private providers, plan managers, and middlemen instead of strong public delivery.Predictably, that brought:
* extra layers of bureaucracy
* profit margins siphoned off
* wildly inconsistent quality
* and huge cost blowouts that had nothing to do with actual careEven the critics now admit that admin overhead, coordination fees and plan managers are swallowing massive chunks of the money.
Meanwhile the scheme grew faster than anyone planned, because hundreds of thousands of people actually need the support.So when folks blast “Labor spending” on the NDIS, they’re conveniently ignoring two things:
1) This isn’t optional fluff — it’s real people’s lives and daily support.
2) A lot of the structural waste and inefficiency was built in when it was turned into a quasi-market experiment.Now both sides are desperately trying to rein in costs as the bill heads towards $50 billion+ a year.
#ndis #disability #australianpolitics #ndisscheme #disabilityrights #labor #coalition #welfare #publicservices #costofliving #australia #political #socialjustice #disabilitysupport #ndiscosts
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It has been a rough kind of day, I had some rent chores to tend to, which exacerbated both my pain and exhaustion, in between taking many breaks and even now I have not been able to get comfortable enough to relax at all, the wonders of doing anything often spins by #bipolar #mania into drive, which in itself is exhausting, a long time ago I realized how I used to have the energy to ride a bicycle hundreds of miles in a week while working 80 hours, and then later how I could manage working 120+ hours a week without crashing, now eventually that all caught up with me, but in the time since I have done my best to keep my body still and my mind as quiet as I could, as any physical activity seems to through me into a mania induced activation, and it has always been hard to keep my mind quiet, but between the two, along with my constant pain sleep often evades me, so doing chores becomes a fine line of balancing extra pain and at what point does my body refuse to shut down and relax, the sad thing is, there is not pre set limit what works one day may not the next and so on, it is a constant battle of will, and far to often I am stuck in a full speed go even though my body can no longer perform, and that causes more pain more exhaustion and really a great deal of aggravation, in anyevent I am having a hard time chilling out and relaxing and my mind is running so fast it is extremely hard to focus on anything at all;
You can encourage my continued useless #poetry, creativity and expression of self, #commentary, random thoughts, #philosophy and ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
#bipolar, #woctxphotog, #anxiety, #cashapp, #DisabilityAwareness, #DisabilitySupport, #disabled, #food, #FromHungerToHope, #fundraise, #groceries, #health, #HopeRestored, #MentalHealthMatters, #MutualAid, #MutualAidHelp, #Paypal, #poverty, #PovertyRelief, #pasjrwoctx
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They say get help…
But where is it ⁉️⁉️⁉️
This meme is painfully real.
When you’re struggling, that advice feels like it’s pointing at a locked door with no key in sight ! 🎯💯
If you’ve ever felt this, you’re not alone ! ❤✊
Let’s normalize actually making help accessible !
#MentalHealthMatters #Disability #InjuredWorkers #YouAreNotAlone #WorkersComp #WSIB #DisabilitySupport
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They say get help…
But where is it ⁉️⁉️⁉️
This meme is painfully real.
When you’re struggling, that advice feels like it’s pointing at a locked door with no key in sight ! 🎯💯
If you’ve ever felt this, you’re not alone ! ❤✊
Let’s normalize actually making help accessible !
#MentalHealthMatters #Disability #InjuredWorkers #YouAreNotAlone #WorkersComp #WSIB #DisabilitySupport
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My friend is disabled, has no cell service, no wifi, can't drive, and is at least 30 mins the greatest town with no income and a disabled daughter who lives with her.
Please help her if you can!
#mutualaid ##peersupport #communitysupport #helpfolkslive2026 #disabilitysupport #antiracism #Decolonize @mutualaid
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⏳ 30 MINUTES until we go LIVE — Tuesday Session Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group
A space that gets it. A space that supports.
What: Peer support, advocacy tools, open Q&A
Who: Injured workers & persons with disabilities (allies welcome)
Join: Email [email protected] for the Zoom link
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
🏠 More info coming soon — tap in & be heard.
#ThunderBay #InjuredWorkers #DisabilitySupport #PeerSupport #Advocacy
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⏳ 30 MINUTES until we go LIVE — Tuesday Session Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers Support Group
A space that gets it. A space that supports.
What: Peer support, advocacy tools, open Q&A
Who: Injured workers & persons with disabilities (allies welcome)
Join: Email [email protected] for the Zoom link
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
🏠 More info coming soon — tap in & be heard.
#ThunderBay #InjuredWorkers #DisabilitySupport #PeerSupport #Advocacy
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Most days I only have a few spoons left after dealing with chronic pain, PTSD, nightmares, and mobility issues.
If you’re navigating injury/claim stuff too… you’re seen! ❤
My app @3mpwrApp has a “bad day mode” button built exactly for this! Rest first. We’ve got your back.
#3mpwrApp #InjuredWorkers #DisabilitySupport #SpoonTheory #ChronicPain
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Most days I only have a few spoons left after dealing with chronic pain, PTSD, nightmares, and mobility issues.
If you’re navigating injury/claim stuff too… you’re seen! ❤
My app @3mpwrApp has a “bad day mode” button built exactly for this! Rest first. We’ve got your back.
#3mpwrApp #InjuredWorkers #DisabilitySupport #SpoonTheory #ChronicPain
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Building in public. Building with purpose.
Latest progress on @3mpwrApp
✔️ Continued feature development & refinement
✔️ Strengthening core tools for injured workers
✔️ Pushing closer to full production release
This isn’t just an app — it’s infrastructure for support, advocacy, and real change.
Grassroots. Community-powered. 100% free.
Read more: https://3mpwrapp.pages.dev/updates/2026/03/27/dev-update-dev-update-2026-03-27/
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Building in public. Building with purpose.
Latest progress on @3mpwrApp
✔️ Continued feature development & refinement
✔️ Strengthening core tools for injured workers
✔️ Pushing closer to full production release
This isn’t just an app — it’s infrastructure for support, advocacy, and real change.
Grassroots. Community-powered. 100% free.
Read more: https://3mpwrapp.pages.dev/updates/2026/03/27/dev-update-dev-update-2026-03-27/
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This is NOT casual testing.
✔️ Use the app daily
5 minutes minimum (2 weeks straight App Store Requirement)✔️ Share real feedback
✔️ Help shape something built for the community
Be part of building something that matters !
👉 Sign up for Beta Testing:
https://forms.gle/17wkKq72insXYGNPALet’s build this together. 💪
#3mpwrApp #InjuredWorkers #DisabilitySupport #BetaTesting #AppLaunch #BuiltFromExperience #AccessibilityMatters #CollectiveAction
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This is NOT casual testing.
✔️ Use the app daily
5 minutes minimum (2 weeks straight App Store Requirement)✔️ Share real feedback
✔️ Help shape something built for the community
Be part of building something that matters !
👉 Sign up for Beta Testing:
https://forms.gle/17wkKq72insXYGNPALet’s build this together. 💪
#3mpwrApp #InjuredWorkers #DisabilitySupport #BetaTesting #AppLaunch #BuiltFromExperience #AccessibilityMatters #CollectiveAction
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Navigating injury, illness, and disability can feel overwhelming.
3mpwrApp brings tools together in one place:
📄 Document evidence
⚡ Track wellness patterns
⚖️ Find support & resourcesYou don’t have to navigate it alone.
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Navigating injury, illness, and disability can feel overwhelming.
3mpwrApp brings tools together in one place:
📄 Document evidence
⚡ Track wellness patterns
⚖️ Find support & resourcesYou don’t have to navigate it alone.
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DWP's Access to Work Scheme: Limited Reach Despite Potential Financial Aid
The UK's Access to Work scheme offers money to help disabled people work, but few seem to know about it or use it. Find out why.
#AccessToWork, #DisabilitySupport, #UKJobs, #DWP, #WorkplaceHelp
https://newsletter.tf/access-work-scheme-disabled-workers-uk/
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🎥 We’re live on YouTube!
We’ve started posting our Getting Started with 3mpwr App Video Series — step-by-step guides that explain installation, privacy, permissions, and profile setup in plain language.
Start here 👇
▶️ https://youtube.com/@3mpwrapp?si=sKKhDdF-0OZf8Dck📂 Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9rrFtEbgwF_glSs0DIXsvZAMbuMMsN1P&si=mDtK7MdsnXDdnHNK
Privacy-first. Accessible. Built for real people.
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I’m trying to provide physical and occupational therapy for my daughter Roaa so she can walk and rely on herself. The cost is too high for us during the war. Please help and support my campaign 🤍
🔗 https://chuffed.org/project/142647-help-hamed-and-his-family-to-survive
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Ottawa FYI 🧹
If you’re a low-income resident with a medical need & limited supports, the City’s Home Support Services can help with light housekeeping (floors, laundry, kitchen, bathroom). Worth knowing & sharing:
https://ottawa.ca/en/family-and-social-services/financial-and-social-assistance/apply-financial-assistance/home-support-services
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Barbara Pickering: "Can any one help?
I claim pip and universal credit with limited capability for work.
Does anyone know of any other disability benefits that I should also claim?
Thank you in advance"If you’re on Facebook - you can answer direct here: https://bvoices.uk/4fHCtQ0
-#SWBrumCROWDSOURCE
#disabilitysupport
#Birmingham
#BirminghamUK
#Bromsgrove
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Today was the real start of my semester at UOW. I had a meeting with disability support to get everything in place, since I officially began yesterday. My first tutorial is at 3:30 this afternoon, followed by a lecture straight after. It feels good to be settling in and starting to find my rhythm.
I also contacted HumanWare about my Brailliant Braille display, which has been giving me some issues. Thankfully, it’s still under warranty, so I’ll be sending it off for repairs tomorrow. Fingers crossed it comes back in good shape!
Tonight’s dinner is chicken schnitzel with mashed potatoes and veggies, prepared by my husband, who is an absolutely brilliant cook. I feel very lucky.
#AutisticAndAcademic #BlindStudent #DisabilitySupport #BrailleTechnology #HumanWare #AccessibleLearning #FirstWeekOfUni #NeurodivergentLife #Grateful #SensoryJoy #DisabilityPride
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Australia News Beep: The future is uncertain for South Australia’s major disability employment provider. What does it mean for those it supports?
Twenty years ago, the Clarke family took their son Ryan along to his first day of work. “We…
#NewsBeep #News #Jobs #AU #Australia #bedford #Business #disability #disabilitysupport #ndis #supportedemployment #work
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/22439/
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Mobility isn’t just instinct—it’s training. Knowing how to use a white cane, feel your shoreline, and rely on your ears and feet takes time and guidance.
Until you’ve been taught, it’s hard to understand what you’re missing.
Double Tap: Where blind people talk tech! http://dltap.com/46rVTpe
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After weeks of struggling with my previous institution, I finally made the difficult decision to withdraw. Despite submitting all documentation for disability adjustments early and following up multiple times, there were constant delays. Two weeks just to acknowledge a form (which included full reports and suggested supports) is far too long. These cases often simply need a conversation to confirm adjustments, not endless reviews.
There were also serious communication gaps: classes scheduled on public holidays with no clear guidance, lecturers not turning up, no way to reach them directly via email, and Canvas messages going unanswered. Even when I physically went to campus, staff tried to help but could not get through to anyone with authority to act. It was disheartening, especially because the course content was excellent. However, I’m thankful that I’ve now enrolled elsewhere and begin my studies on June 23. I’m already receiving much better support and feel hopeful moving forward.
#HigherEd #Accessibility #DisabilitySupport #StudentExperience #CPTSD #NewBeginnings