This brief outlines practical policy solutions to deliver a tailored approach to improve outcomes for participants with psychosocial disability with existing funding. It recommends priority actions informed by sector and lived experience expertise which, if implemented, would improve the efficacy of funding already committed to the NDIS.

Recommendations

1. Introducing a new approach to NDIS supports for people with psychosocial disability.
2. Getting navigation reforms right for people with psychosocial disability.
3. Understanding the recent decline in NDIS access rates.
4. Shifting from encouraging dependence to supporting recovery.
5. Ensuring psychosocial expertise is informing NDIS Reforms.
6. Fixing NDIS pricing.
7. Implementing Foundational Supports and addressing unmet need for psychosocial support outside the NDIS.