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    Minister sets the stage for regulatory reform

    Minister Shorten has announced the first changes to provider regulation.
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    Good Practice Guides - Disability Employment

    NDS has produced a series of good practice guides for members that provide comprehensive instructions for employers cover NDIS Employment Supports, Classifying Employees and Supported Wage System under...
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    Western Australia Disability Support Awards - 2024 Nominees

    Congratulations to our 2024 Western Australia Disability Support Awards nominees! Visit the Western Australian Disability Support Awards page for information about the upcoming awards.
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    NDIS Review: Final Report Webcast

    Breakdown of the recommendations and actions from the NDS Review, focusing on key areas of the NDIS.
  • Events & Training
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    Good Working Relations for Managers and Supervisors

    Location: National (Online)
    Event start date: 1/01/2028
    This course is designed to provide managers, supervisors and team leaders with an understanding about workplace bullying and harassment and how to prevent and manage these issues.
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    Office version of Infection, Prevention and Control

    Location: National (online)
    Event start date: 1/01/2028
    This course is essential for office employees in care-sector settings, including both head office and back-office roles. It equips them with the knowledge to follow safe work practices and effectively...
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    Fire, Security and Emergency Response

    Location: National (online)
    Event start date: 31/12/2099
    This e-Learning course covers the requirements under WHS Regulation 2011 and contains important knowledge for every organisation.
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Office version of Infection, Prevention and Control

Event start date: 1/01/2028
This course is essential for office employees in care-sector settings, including both head office and back-office roles. It equips them with the knowledge to follow safe work practices and effectively...

Business excellence beyond NDIS transition

Event start date: 31/12/2099
Available now, self-paced: Four eLearning modules have been developed with funding from the Victorian Government to support business excellence beyond the NDIS transition. 

Communicating for Safety: Recognising and Communicating Change

Event start date: 31/12/2099
Available now - scheduled by arrangement:Understand confidently how to recognise and communicate any changes in the people you support.

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Disability at Work Conference 2024

Event start date: 23/07/2024
National Disability Services (NDS) calls on employment service providers and other professional employment specialists, to help shape and drive the program for NDS's Disability at Work Conference.

National Quality and Safeguarding Community of Practice

Event start date: 13/08/2024
NDS invites members to join the National Quality and Safeguarding CoP, a peer-led forum covering all areas of providing quality safe services for people with a disability.

SCHADS: Know Your Award

Event start date: 21/08/2024
NDS and WorkplacePLUS are pleased to offer this SCHADS: Know Your Award half-day workshop to help ensure your HR, payroll, and office managers are getting SCHADS right.

Right on Board – Practice Governance for Disability Service Providers: Governing and Managing for Human Rights, Quality and Safeguarding - Online Series

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Location: National (online)
Date: 1/08/2024 to 15/08/2024

Purpose at Work, in partnership with NDS, offers the Right on Board Workshop. Right on Board answers the need as highlighted by the Disability Royal Commission for greater awareness of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as well as strengthened governance and management of quality and safeguarding.

Each participant in the workshop will also receive a comprehensive workbook to assist their learning in the workshops and as an ongoing reference point.

Right On Board Workshop Series

Dr Alan Hough and Gilbert Kruidenier of Purpose at Work specialise in governing and managing for human rights, quality and safeguarding. Alan combines expertise in governance with extensive knowledge of the real-world challenges of achieving quality and safeguarding in disability supports. He is a regular presenter at NDS conferences and events. Gilbert also presents at NDS events and was the author of the NDS ‘Fundamentals for Boards’ interactive resource.

Please note: Each registrant must attend all three workshops in this series

Workshop 1: Understanding rights and responsibilities

  • The increasing expectations on directors and executives about human rights, quality and safeguarding
  • Legal responsibilities of directors, executives and NDIS workers
  • The human rights perspective and implications for supports types and service delivery

Workshop 2: Understanding the risks and how they should be addressed

  • The key risks in service delivery
  • How to prevent harm in service delivery
  • Assure service delivery quality and safeguarding as a director and executive

Workshop 3: Knowing what is going on and embedding learning and action

  • Understand when things are going right, and wrong
  • Soft skills to support reporting
  • Embedding learning and action.

Each participant in the workshop series also receives a comprehensive workbook to assist their learning in the workshops and as an ongoing reference point.

If you'd like an in-house workshop specific to your organisation please see our Right on Board - Governing and Managing for Human Rights, Quality and Safeguarding In-house Workshop.

Who should attend?

NDS recommends Board Directors and CEOs of disability service organisations attend.

Event details:

Workshop set DatesTimeLocationRegistration
Workshop 1: Tuesday 11 June
Workshop 2: Tuesday 18 June
Workshop 3: Tuesday 25 June		 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (AEDT) Online Register

Workshop 1: Thursday 1 August
Workshop 2: Thursday 8 August
Workshop 3: Thursday 15 August

 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm AEST Online Register

Cost

NDS Member: $505 plus GST per person
Non-member: $760 plus GST per person

Please note tickets are not to be shared - one ticket per attendee. This workshop is limited to 20 participants.

Contact information

For any enquiries, please contact Alicia Perry, Learning and Development Partnership Liaison Officer, learnanddevelop@nds.org.au, 03 8341 4307