There are clear, simple and effective reform opportunities to greatly improve the avenues for whistleblowers in the NDIS to safely bring information to light.
In recent years, the media has played a critical role in exposing abuse, exploitation, corruption and fraud within the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Often this wrongdoing is left unaddressed until it reaches a crisis point – further undermining public confidence.
The federal government is looking to implement reforms but is missing the opportunity to strengthen protections for the people who expose wrongdoing within the scheme. That is a critical omission – especially considering that NDIS whistleblower protections are some of the most outdated in the country.
The NDIS, introduced in 2013, is central to ensuring the human rights of people with disability to exercise choice in accessing the support they need.
But robust monitoring and regulation are crucial to ensuring the scheme – which relies on the supply of disability services by private providers – is not exploited for financial gain. Like any regulatory framework, it relies on information about wrongdoing to be reported in order to act. In a multi-billion-dollar scheme with thousands of private providers of various sizes and business structures, workers and participants are a crucial source of information.
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