Advocacy Advisory Group Peer Leadership Workshops

On the 7 November 2024, the Policy and Advocacy team ran two workshops for the Advocacy Advisory Group members on self-advocacy and peer leadership, to support their local Advocacy Community Networks. The workshops were held at Sargood on Collaroy where most of our rural Advocacy Community Network Peer Leaders (Peer Leaders) stayed. The Self Advocacy […]

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‘Independent assessments are dead’. Let’s get back to the drawing board!

Following a meeting between the state and territory Disability Ministers and Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Linda Reynolds, it was announced that independent assessments (IAs) in their current form will not go ahead. As Shadow Minister for the NDIS, Bill Shorten put it “Independent assessments are dead, at least, dead for the […]

Listen to episode six of Have The Nerve

In episode six of SCIA’s podcast Have The Nerve we discuss navigating support funding for older Australians with disability from the NDIS to My Aged Care. You’ll hear lived experiences from Susan who sustained a brain injury in 2005 and was able to get onto the NDIS before she turned 65 and Di, who is […]