Last month the entire ADA Australia team had the rare and valuable opportunity to come together for staff training and development. A key theme clearly emerged independently among all the key speakers we had invited which was how do we keep the heart, the soul, and the humanness in care and advocacy?
Perhaps this is not surprising given the current state of the world, but I was reassured by the fact that while both aged care and the NDIS are undergoing such major reforms, that keeping heart and soul is still the ‘north star’.
The Australian Government recent announcement of $2 billion over 5 years towards a Thriving Kids program, which will see children with milder development delay or autism supported outside of the NDIS starting from July 2026, reignited ongoing economic-based discussion about the rising and unsustainable cost and issues with the scheme.
