Government cracks down on NDIS inducements in remote Aboriginal communities
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The federal government has announced a crackdown on unscrupulous National Disability Insurance Scheme providers in remote Aboriginal communities. ( ABC News: Patrick Stone )
The federal government is responding to concerns about National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) providers offering gifts including food, alcohol and tobacco to residents in remote NT Aboriginal communities.
The National Disability Insurance Agency will fund new positions in 17 remote communities across the NT to help residents understand the scheme.
The scheme's watchdog, the NDIS Commission, will also set up a special "consortium" of NT disability advocates to gather intel about providers in the bush.
The federal government has announced new measures to crack down on unscrupulous National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) providers in the Northern Territory, with a focus on the use of inducements to recruit and retain vulnerable participants in remote Aboriginal communities.
Under the changes, new community access workers will be employed in 17 remote NT communities, as well as eight in Queensland and four in New South Wales.
The roles will be funded through the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), which runs the NDIS, but will be drawn from the ranks of local Aboriginal health services.
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