‘Nightmare scenario for disabled people’: NDIS overhaul risks lives, advocates say

Sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans are generated criticised amid fears they amount to ‘robo-planning’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAdvocates have criticised sweeping changes to the way National Disability Insurance Scheme support plans will be generated as “robo-planning” that risks the lives of NDIS participants, and have called on the government to rethink the changes.Guardian Australia revealed this week that under a major overhaul of the NDIS to be rolled out next year, funding and support plans for participants will be generated by a computer program and staff will have no discretion to amend them, dramatically reducing human involvement in the process. Continue reading...