The Independent Advisory Council (Council) has released further details on upcoming consultation activity on the proposed reforms to the NDIS in their latest bulletin.

All NDIS participants aged 16 years and over and carers aged 16 years and over of NDIS participants of any age are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from Tuesday, 8 June.

The Australian Government is establishing dedicated vaccination hubs in key locations to provide additional safe and accessible locations for NDIS participants in Phase 1 to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. NDIS disability workers and primary carers of people with disability will also be able to access the hubs.

Please be advised of an upcoming outage to the myplace participant and provider portals. This is a planned outage to update our systems.

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring the safety of NDIS participants during the current COVID-19 outbreak in Victoria.

Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC has today released a paper outlining how NDIS participants could be supported with the proposal of more flexible NDIS plans in the future.