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The Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) Bill 2024

The Alliance has consulted with a range of individuals and organisations involved with young onset dementia about the NDIS and the reform outcomes they believe are needed for the scheme. The results of these discussions have informed this submission and its ten recommendations

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Pre budget submission January 2023

Our pre budget submission addressed the rapid rise in the number of people living with Young Onset Dementia (YOD); the significant and wide ranging lack of services for this group; and the very real risk that these younger people will be inappropriately placed in residential aged care services because the service options they require simply do not exist.

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YPINH - Speaking up about where I want to live

Speaking up about where I want to live - a future planning Guide. In 2020 The Alliance worked with a number of people with Down Syndrome at risk of being placed in a residential aged care. These people were either relinquished to hospital when a change in their functional capacity led to house staff admitting them to the emergency department; or when changed circumstances resulted in people being admitted to hospital from their family home. Both groups faced the same challenge of an unclear path home and the risk of aged care placement.

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The Productivity Commission’s Housing and Homelessness Agreement Review 2022

Our work with younger disabled Australians living or at risk of placement in residential aged care, revealed that the current housing offerings for NDIS participants is too narrow to accommodate the diversity of housing need and expectation that Australians with disability have.

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The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability 2021

We provided a brief submission to highlight a key reform we believe is urgently needed to improve the accountability of disability service providers for the safety and support of the people with disability who are their clients.

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