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The disability community says trust in the federal government has been destroyed by scrapped controversial plans for independent assessments for participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The reforms would have seen NDIS participants and would-be participants assessed by a government-contracted allied health professional - rather than their own treating specialists with whom they already have a relationship - to help determine the support they receive.
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Concerns had been raised about a lack of genuine government consultation and transparency, the ‘one-size-fits-all’ model being culturally inappropriate, and the reforms undermining the principles of choice and control that the NDIS was built on.
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