The Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV) is the voice of Multicultural Victoria. It is a member driven organization with a statewide leadership role in lobbying all levels of government on behalf of multicultural communities in areas such as employment, education, health, disability, child protection, justice and culture.

The full rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will likely to bring some additional challenges to culturally diverse communities who are already finding the disability sector very complex and fragmented. ECCV’s primary concern is in regards to the potential risks associated with the influx of more operators into the disability market with the high probability of increased unethical behaviour. The present arrangement amounts to government providing ‘block funding’ payments to disability services providers to offer mostly a range of non-individualised services such as information, referral, advice and community capacity building initiatives.