‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say
Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAdvocates have criticised sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme...
<p>Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Advocates have criticised sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans will be generated as “robo-planning” that risks the lives of NDIS participants, and have called on the government to rethink the changes.</p><p>Guardian Australia revealed this week that under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/03/ndis-plans-computer-generated">funding and support plans for participants will be generated by a computer program</a> and staff will have no discretion to amend them, dramatically reducing human involvement in the process.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/03/ndis-overhaul-disabled-people-risks-lives">Continue reading...</a>
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