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Day Services Network meeting

Event start date: 3/07/2024
NDS invites disability services providers to attend Day Services network meetings to regularly discuss issues and concerns, and share strategies.

NDS New South Wales Quality Network

Event start date: 3/07/2024
The New South Wales Quality network is an NDS member-exclusive network focused on quality in the disability sector.

Understanding High Intensity Supports Skills Descriptors

Event start date: 3/07/2024
Join us for a webinar on Understanding High Intensity Supports Skills Descriptors (HISSD). Explore the relationship between NDIS Practice Standards and HISSD.

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Last chance to register for NDS’s Disability Hot Topics Breakfast in Hobart

With less than two weeks to register, our annual breakfast will be a chance to network with peers and hear the latest from the sector.

Child and Youth Safe Organisation Bill passes state parliament

From 2024, a new framework sets care and safety standards for organisations working with children and young people.

No new disability funding in Tasmanian Budget

The 2023–24 Budget sees continued funding for initiatives announced last year, but nothing in the way of new funding for the disability sector.

Tasmanian providers can help shape the Disability Health Strategy

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What you need to know

  • The Department of Health is developing its first Disability Health Strategy.
  • The proposed strategy will set priorities and actions to improve the wellbeing of Tasmanians with disability.
  • Everyone in the Tasmanian disability sector is invited to contribute to its development.
  • Disability Providers can join a special meeting with departmental consultant Annie Curtis following the Tasmanian Hot Topics Breakfast on 8 August.

The Tasmania Department of Health is developing its first Disability Health Strategy, a shared commitment to priorities and actions within the Tasmanian Health Service to improve the health and wellbeing of people with disability in Tasmania. 
 
The Disability Health Strategy will focus on the following pillars: 

  1. providing quality health services 
  2. improving the accessibility of our infrastructure 
  3. empowering decision-making 
  4. building our workforce 
  5. improving our information systems and processes. 

Community consultation 

The Department of Health Tasmania has engaged Annie Curtis to lead the community consultation for the Disability Health Strategy.  

The Disability Health Strategy will be driven by the priorities of community members who use our health system, in particular: 

  • people with disability and their families 
  • carers 
  • providers of disability support 
  • advocates. 

NDS invites all Tasmanian disability providers to a session with Annie Curtis to discuss the Disability Health Strategy on 8 August at the Old Woolstore Hotel in Hobart. By giving the perspective of the disability service sector, you will help shape the department’s strategy.   
 
The free session is straight after the NDS Hot Topics Breakfast, for which registrations are still open.  

Tasmanian Disability Health Strategy Consultation 

Date: Tuesday 8 August 
Time: 9:00am to 10:00am AEST 
Location: Macarthur Room, The Old Woolstore Apartment Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania  
Cost: Free

Register your attendance to the community consultation 

Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact Lizzie Castles, State Manager Tasmania, submit enquiry/feedback, show phone number