Submission 2887 — Name Withheld — NDIS Future Generations Bill | External submission

Submission 2887

Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs about the

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.

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.

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.

Submission 2887 — Name Withheld — NDIS Future Generations Bill