Published 24th March 2022
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is one of Australia’s most ambitious public policy initiatives. Critical to the sustainability of the NDIS, is a workforce of sufficient size to meet demand, and which has the appropriate skills, qualifications and expertise to deliver safe, quality supports to participants.
It is estimated that the NDIS workforce will need to grow by an additional 83,000 full time equivalent staff to support participants at the scheme’s projected peak. However, attracting and retaining a suitably skilled, qualified workforce continues to prove a significant challenge, with the sector increasingly seen as overworked, underpaid, undervalued and poorly trained.
Evidence provided to this inquiry has demonstrated that ambitious action is needed to adequately address issues within the NDIS workforce and to safeguard the availability of safe and quality supports for NDIS participants into the future.
This final report for this inquiry makes a number of recommendations to further address such matters. The recommendations relate to:
To read the full report visit the APO website.
(The above material is copied from the APO website)
Source:Parliament of Australia, 2022, APO (https://apo.org.au/node/316533)
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