One of the key designers of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) concedes the program is not working as intended.
Bruce Bonyhady, who is helping lead a review into the scheme, said after 10 years of operation multiple challenges still needed to be addressed.
“It’s inevitable when you introduce a scheme of this magnitude, which is so transformational, which is world leading and a scheme which Australians are justifiably proud of, that it does not work,” Bonyhady told ABC Radio on June 30.
“Not every aspect of it works as intended.”
Bonyhady said the NDIS had become an all or nothing approach for those with disability to receive support….