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‘Thriving Kids’ and the plan to shrink the NDIS

‘Thriving Kids’ and the plan to shrink the NDIS

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The federal government says too many children are on the NDIS, and many of them are ‘over-serviced’.

Health Minister Mark Butler has unveiled a new plan, ‘Thriving Kids’, pitched as a way to save the NDIS by moving children with ‘mild’ and ‘moderate’ autism and developmental delay off the scheme and back onto mainstream supports – which, over time, were defunded.

But the plan raises questions as to who gets to decide what’s ‘mild’ and ‘moderate’ – and whether shifting kids off the NDIS will simply shift costs elsewhere.


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Guest: Senior reporter for The Saturday Paper, Rick Morton

Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

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