A peak industry body fears that National Disability Insurance Scheme service providers are facing increasingly bleak financial outlooks, with not-for-profit organisations appearing to be at at greatest risk.
NDS chief executive officer Laurie Leigh said financial viability concerns had been foreshadowed for several years, prompting tough decisions by providers.
"Providers are having to make very difficult decisions about what services they are able to continue or not into the future. The NDS has continued to raise concerns around a range of structural issues in the NDIS, including increasing costs for insurance, safeguarding compliance, administration and planning, and perceived problems with the disability support worker cost model.
"The planning processes are very individualised and lead to a quite fragmented service within a group home setting, or a setting where people are living together," she said."A participant might have been assessed as needing 'awake at night' — somebody to be there overnight — but because they're in a three-person house, their package is only supported for a third of that overnight awake cost.
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