Blistering speech on NDIS compulsory assessments by disability advocate Kevin Stone
Channel: Every Australian Counts
Date: 2021-06-18

"Right now, big decisions about our NDIS are being made by powerful people who do not understand the impact of the changes they are making. Dirty deals are being done to satisfy vested interest groups. Massive money is being wasted on consultancy firms with no transparency or accountability. Powerful privatised service empires are being built on the backs of disempowered people. Bankers, business people, and insurance actuaries are devising new ways to clump, cluster and classify Australians with disabilities for the convenience of government. It is prejudice disguised in new and ugly forms. And we must not stand by and let it happen." 

Kevin Stone AM, CEO of VALID and Chair of Inclusion Australia, has issued a blistering new statement opposing NDIS independent assessments. 

This is the third statement made by VALID since September 2020 raising concerns about the proposal - and warning the NDIA about the potential for the changes to cause irreparable damage to the Scheme and the harm that will be done to people with intellectual disabilities if compulsory assessments go ahead.
 
The statement was made at the end of VALID’s two-day online conference, We Won’t Be Beaten, where people with intellectual disabilities and their families shared their fear and anger about the plans to overhaul the Scheme.

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Read the full speech or read the transcript https://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/stop-independent-assessments/

Take action against changes to the NDIS on the Every Australian Counts website: https://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/hands-off/