National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2887
Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs about the
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026.
I would like to make a submission about the changes to the NDIS.
Functionality assessments
I understand that people will be assessed on their overall functionality. I have questions on the detail about how this will be done. Will participants have to pay or use their own funds for functional capacity assessments? This could use up a lot from smaller NDIS plans, and will cause delays as there are not enough prractitioners. If NDIS staff/contractors will be doing the assessments are they qualified. I’m concerned that there is no right of review over assessments.
Social and Community Funding
I have concerns about this funding being reduced, or other funding being reduced in a global manner. My child needs social and community funding to develop enough social skills to participate in the world, and learn to speak to people she does not know. As a teenager I can’t help her interact with peers, she needs managed social groups to learn these skills with real peers, with expert assistance. Or she needs regular social activities tailors to her cohort of quiet girls with no intellectual disabilities, but significant social issues.
With help in social areas she will be an employable adult with friends and the ability to do her own shopping and travel on public transport. It has taken years of social groups for her to be able to order food in shops. Without this type of help she will struggle to get a job and maintain a circle of friends and acquaintances, and manage in the real world, in dealing with phone calls.
I have concerns that social funding has come to seem like an extra that can be cut, but for some participants this is the most important area for funding.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026
Submission 2887
Timeframes and non-NDIS services
I also have concerns about the speed of these changes, and whether thriving kids or
other community-based services will be available for children who aren’t on the
NDIS.
Regards