$398M funding committed for NDIS via the ILC Program
Minister for Families and Social Services, Paul Fletcher, and Assistant Minister for Social Services, Housing and Disability Services, Sarah Henderson have announced that $398 million of funding will be available through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Information, Linkages and Capacity (ILC) Building program.
The NDIS website mentioned that there will be a new approach to the ILC. It will now be delivered through four programs:
- Individual Capacity Building Program – delivered through a national network of Disabled Peoples Organisations and Families Organisations (DPOs/FOs);
- National Information Program – providing accessible, quality and consistent information about disability types and service and support options;
- Mainstream Capacity Building Program – working to change the way that mainstream services are better connected to NDIS participants, so that people with disability can use these services alongside everyone else; and
- Economic and Community Participation Program – working to increase the social and economic participation, including employment outcomes, of people with disability. Further $19 million in funding will be available through an ILC round for projects to boost employment opportunities for people with disability.
Applications will be available from March 2019.
Read more from the NDIS website.
