The Enable Network has had a blast sharing our stories and experiences with you this week for International Day of People with Disability. We hope you've enjoyed this change up in content, and we hope to bring you more personal stories in the new year. We were also kept very busy this week managing an internal event to celebrate IDPwD, with guest speaker Alistair Lee - @alistair.lee.98 - who, as well as being an Olympic athlete, husband, father and avid home renovator, is also the only totally b

Do you know how to recognise signs of abuse and neglect? The NDIS Code of Conduct requires providers and workers to recognise warning signs and respond effectively. Failing to act on abuse is a serious breach of the Code and can lead to bans and legal action. All reasonable steps must be taken to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of people with disability. This applies to anyone who provides support of any kind to NDIS participants – including unregistered provide

Safeguards and quality

In case Monique Jeremiah missed the memo: getting exposed on A Current Affair is not a media retraction — and uploading a 101-minute #Youtube rant isn’t an NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission statement. That’s not transparency, that’s karaoke for conspiracy theories. Diversity Models claims to empower people with disabilities, but ACA showed us what it really looks like: pocketing pay, charging thousands in ‘fees,’ telling a blind woman to ‘look more disabled,’ and calling it a business model

Former judge criticises NDIS commission's response to controversial autism program

10 NDIS providers hit with biggest fines amid 1000s of complaints