‘Thriving Kids’ and the plan to shrink the NDIS
Today, investigative journalist and author Rick Morton discusses the federal government’s claim too many children on the NDIS, and many of them are “overserviced”. But who decides who should access funding?
The federal government says there are too many children on the NDIS, and many of them are “overserviced”.
Health Minister Mark Butler has unveiled a new plan, ‘Thriving Kids’, pitched as a way to save the NDIS by moving children with “mild” and “moderate” autism and developmental delay off the scheme and back onto mainstream supports – which, over time, were defunded.
But the plan raises questions as to who gets to decide what’s mild and moderate – and whether shifting kids off the NDIS will simply shift costs elsewhere.
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Guest: Investigative journalist and author Rick Morton
