NDIS Update: Independent Assessments and the Functional Capacity Framework

Published 1st October 2020

This week the NDIA released a new Functional Capacity Assessment Framework in line with the Government’s response to the Tune Review.

The NDIA says that Functional Capacity Assessment Framework means people with disability accessing the scheme will have free and fair access to the scheme but disability activists have slammed the announcement, fearing that the move to standardised tests is a cost-cutting measure. 

To read the full article, please visit iDEAS website.

Source:
Hillary Wilde, 2020, Ideas (https://www.ideas.org.au)