Emergency and Disaster Management: Tools and resources to support NDIS providers to meet provider obligations

Overview

The emergency situation in Australia throughout the 2019-20 bushfire season and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the critical need for NDIS providers to effectively develop, test, and review emergency plans, and to plan for the continuity of critical supports during emergencies to ensure the safety, health and wellbeing of the people they support. Provider preparedness for emergencies such as bushfires, floods or pandemics has proved to be of critical importance to ensuring the safety, health and wellbeing of participants, and for provider viability in the NDIS market. The objective of this grant is to fund a project to consult, develop and deliver a toolkit of emergency and disaster management resources, supporting continuous improvement for providers in relation to planning for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies such as a pandemic or natural disaster. The development of the toolkit is to be informed by the requirements of the new Emergency and Disaster management NDIS Practice Standard and other relevant new and amended NDIS Quality Indicators.