Regulation and practice settings to enable innovative housing and support – Summer Foundation submission

Regulation and practice settings to enable innovative housing and support – Summer Foundation submission

Tags: housing

Description:

The Summer Foundation welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to inform the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission’s (the NDIS Commission) development of a graduated risk-proportionate regulatory model for the provision of disability services and the updating of the practice standards for in-home and housing supports.

 

The Summer Foundation’s position is that the considered design of the system of proportionate regulation is key to ensuring that the NDIS can achieve its original intent of supporting the independence and social and economic participation of people with disability.

 

In this approach, regulation must:

• Have a focus on participant outcomes and achieving the overall intent of the NDIS
• Maintain and encourage flexibility and innovation in housing and support for people with disability
• Balance dignity of risk and strengthen safeguards where required