NDIS reforms - Easy Read
Changes to the NDIS
Department of Social Services
Easy English
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About this book
This book is from the Department of Social Services.
We are part of the Australian public service.
We call ourselves the department.
This book is about the National Disability Insurance Scheme or NDIS.
The NDIS gives services and support to people with permanent disability.
Permanent disability means a disability that will not go away.
The NDIS also gives services and support to people who need early intervention
Early intervention means we work with some people now so they need less support later.
Early intervention can be for
- children
- adults
- people with psychosocial disability.
Psychosocial disability means a mental illness that causes disability.
This book says how we want to change the NDIS
Why do we want to change the NDIS?
We asked someone from outside the department to review the NDIS.
A review is when we check
- what is good about the NDIS
- what is not good about the NDIS
- how we can make the NDIS better.
Our review gave us ideas about how we can
- make the NDIS better for people with disability
- make sure the NDIS has enough money to last a long time.
How will we change the NDIS?
We asked the Australian parliament to make a new law about the NDIS.
The parliament is a group of people that makes laws for Australians.
A law says
- what is allowed
and
- what is not allowed.
Our new law says we can make new rules about the NDIS.
We must tell parliament
- if we asked people with disability to help make the new rules
- what people with disability say about the new rules.
Our new law has 3 parts.
