Submissions

QAMH hold significant concerns regarding the draft Lists of NDIS Supports. We recommend that they are not adopted without substantial revision to reflect current practice and APTOS responsibilities. Without this, they are likely to have the effect of excluding people with psychosocial disability from the NDIS and risk widening the gap in psychosocial supports before a fully funded and properly designed system of foundational psychosocial supports is established. We also hold extreme concern for the impact that these lists may have on individual participants and the psychosocial disability community if debt-raising powers are incorrectly applied based on these lists. QAMH strongly recommend that the Government updates these Lists to include specific supports for psychosocial disability, so that people with psychosocial disability, the community and the sector have clear guidance about what supports for psychosocial disability are legitimately able to be accessed via the NDIS, as per current practice.