National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 3911

I am a disability support worker from the Yarra Ranges Shire in Melbourne.

I am writing to you to request your consideration on changes within the NDIS Future Generations Bill 2026.

I currently support 12 people living with disabilities and have been doing so for the last 5 years.

Firstly, I oppose your proposed cut of 50% to social and community access funding.

I predominantly work in SIL housing and we support workers are already stretched far to thin to provide person-centred-active-support to the best of our ability.

Limiting community access would have profound impacts on everyone I support. Most of my supported people also live with mental health conditions on top of their physical and intellectual disabilities. Community access funding is already very limited and no one I support has the funding to currently support their freedom and rights.

My supported people use this funding for essential shopping, appointments, exercise, education, work, and seeing friends and family. These are not luxuries but essential and necessary human rights.

I fear that isolating people with disabilities further will have a profound impact on their mental health!

Secondly, I have extreme concerns around the restrictions on appeals proposed in this Bill.

Currently, the people reviewing NDIS plans have no experience with, or knowledge of disabilities and individual requirements. Furthermore, proposing automated decisions and algorithms is equally terrifying.

For example, I support 6 people whose primary disability is Cerebral Palsy. All of them are full time wheelchair users.

Every single one of them has extremely different needs in terms of manual handling support, SIL support, community access and specialist intervention. They are individual humans with different goals and desires and having unique, personalised plans is essential to guarantee their ongoing health and comfort.

NDIS participants should not be treated as an expensive problem but rather as individual, valuable members of our society. They deserve to have their voices heard and their needs considered, but currently the system lacks accessibility and consultation. I ask that you reach out to some disability advocate groups and organisations, as well as individuals living with disabilities.

They need to have a say here and making decisions for and not with disabled people infringes on their human rights.

National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Submission 3911

Thank you for your consideration.