Strengthening the NDIS to Support Australians for the Future

The Australian Government has announced a series of major reforms designed to secure the NDIS for all participants. These changes focus on improving quality, strengthening safeguards, ensuring supports remain truly reasonable and necessary, and returning the Scheme to its original purpose which is supporting people with permanent and significant disability.

At My Life Accommodation and Care Solutions, we welcome these reforms. They reflect the standards we already hold ourselves to every day. 

As a registered NDIS provider, we meet the national quality and safeguarding requirements that the government is now strengthening across the sector. Registration means our participants, families and support coordinators can trust that our services are delivered safely, ethically and with accountability.

The government’s focus on clearer eligibility, evidence-based assessments, stronger oversight, and reducing rorts aligns with the systems we already have in place. 

We have:

• A team dedicated to delivering high quality support and services
• Transparent reporting
• Strong participant safeguarding practices
• A commitment to continuous improvement
• Sustainable services
• Maintaining relationships with all stakeholders, allied health and family.

My Life Accommodation and Care Solutions has built every part of our service around the NDIS’s mission, of empowering people with permanent and significant disability. Because we operate with transparent processes, qualified staff and participant-centred practice, the government’s new strengthening measures simply validate the way we work. This is why the strengthened NDIS reforms don’t require us to adjust, they confirm the standards we already uphold.

These changes are designed to make the Scheme fairer, safer, sustainable and consistent for NDIS Participants who rely on the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The first major reform is returning the NDIS to its original purpose. When the NDIS was first proposed back in 2013 to help people with disability be more independent, have greater choice and control and live the life they choose. 

The move to evidence-based assessments represents a return to the original intent of the 2018 nationwide NDIS rollout. These assessments focus on whether a participant has a permanent impairment that results in a substantial reduction in their ability to perform everyday activities without support. This approach ensures decisions are consistent, fair and aligned with the purpose of the Scheme.

The NDIS decision to end plan rollovers and stop unspent funds from carrying over, year after year is an important component in lowering the cost to the Australian taxpayer. This change brings the Scheme back to its original 2018 design, where plans were meant to reflect a participant’s actual functional requirements do not result in accumulate unused budgets. 

By resetting the 12-month NDIS plan rather than rolling them forward, the NDIS can ensure supports remain genuinely reasonable and necessary, based on up-to-date evidence and the participant’s actual circumstances. 

The new targeted cost of the NDIS under the planned reforms will be $55 billion in 2030 down from the current forecast of $70 billion in 2026. 

This approach takes the Scheme back to its original design in 2018, where eligibility and supports were determined by the impact of a permanent impairment on daily living, not by diagnosis alone.

Under the new framework, plans will be built from clear clinical evidence. Participants will receive funding for supports that are genuinely aligned with their abilities, challenges and goals. This adjustment will result in fairer, more consistent decision-making and ensure that NDIS funding is truly representing what the scheme is intended to deliver. 

The NDIA will be mandating that all providers who deliver support under the NDIS will need to be registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. The purpose of this change is to ensure that every provider, regardless of size, location or service type, meets the same national standards for safety, quality, worker screening, reporting and accountability. 

For many years, the mix of registered and unregistered providers has created gaps in oversight, inconsistent service quality and opportunities for fraud and non-compliance. By moving to a fully registered provider market, the NDIA can return to its original role: governing the Scheme, protecting participants and ensuring public funds are used responsibly. This reform is designed to lift the overall quality of supports, reduce exploitation, and create a more transparent and trustworthy NDIS for the future.

Fraud and non-compliance damage the trust people have in the NDIS. When anyone does the wrong thing under the Scheme, it doesn’t just affect the Scheme, it harms participants and their families. It can lead to poor-quality services, unsafe practices, and people being taken advantage of. 

Statistics say there are over 28,000 fraud tip offs to NDIS Fraud Investigation Line per year.
It is also estimated that up to 99.98% of fraud cases go unprosecuted. It is projected that 6-10 percent of NDIS spendings is fraudulent, non-compliant or incorrect. With the 2025-2026 budget at 52.3 billion this equates to 5.23 billion dollars lost per year.   

How these changes will help everyone

• Fighting fraud and stopping rorts
• Increase evidence required for payments for NDIS supports
• Non-Compliance
• Reduce conflicts of interest

These changes are not just about correcting past issues, they are about building a stronger, safer and more sustainable NDIS. The focus is on long-term stability, improved participant outcomes and restoring trust in the Scheme’s purpose and integrity.

As the NDIS enters a new chapter, My Life Accommodation and Care Solutions stand ready, not with hesitation, but with confidence. These reforms are not something we fear, they reflect the way we have always operated. Our commitment has been to deliver safe, high-quality, transparent and participant-centred supports, and the strengthened NDIS reinforces those values.

My Life Accommodation and Care Solutions are looking forward to working within a stronger, fairer and more future-focused Scheme. Together with participants, families, allied health professionals and our dedicated team, we are committed to building a better future for Australians living with disability.