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We want to give funding to 11 types of services:
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These services help make our community accessible.
When the community is accessible, it is easy to:
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These services help people with disability find a place to live.
3
These services support people with disability to have their say.
They can also give them information and advice.
4
These services support people with disability to build skills and knowledge.
5
These services help people with disability study and learn.
6
These services help people with disability find and keep a job.
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These services help people with disability be independent in their own home.
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These services help people with disability find and use information.
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These services help people with disability do things for fun, like hobbies or sports.
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When we research and collect data, it helps make sure:
Data includes facts, information and records.
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These services help:
When someone takes a break from caring for someone with disability, it is called respite.
The new Act will support us to give funding to these services.
It will also allow us to give funding to different types of services in the future if we need to.
The new Act will also include other ways we can give funding to services.
The new Act won’t affect the services people with disability receive.
We can continue to give funding to the services people already receive.
And work to improve them.
The new Act will be able to give funding to more types of services than the old Act.
The new Act won’t affect services and programs that are happening now.
When providers create new agreements, those agreements will be under the new Act.
Providers will need to have a good way to handle complaints.
When you make a complaint, you tell someone that something:
And any providers who aren’t allowed to deliver NDIS services won’t be able to get funding.
For example, if they put people at risk.
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