Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, , 5:42:49 to 5:44:32
The department provides cumulative projections for children exiting the NDIS scheme through 2031 as foundational supports and early intervention reforms take effect.
Topics: Social services, Government spending
Speakers: Anthea Long, Senator Penny Allman-Payne, Unknown Speaker, Blair Comley
Long is just coming to the table to answer your question.
So Anthony Long, First Assistant Secretary, NDIS Sustainability Task Force. Senator, can I just clarify when you say children, uh what age would you are you referring to?
Well, I'm assuming if thriving kids goes from zero to eight that the kids who will be removed are zero to eight, but I'm happy to be corrected.
So Senator, I can give you figures around children uh 18 and under if that's helpful. And so in terms of the projected number of participants who would be assumed to exit the scheme under the reforms, uh it would be 155,000 children by the 30th of June 2031.
Okay, thank you. Uh and is there a um if that's by 2031? Have you estimated sort of year on year between now and then how many roughly will be exiting each year?
Uh yes, Senator. So I can give you that year on year if you would like.
Yep, that'd be really helpful.
So for 30 June 2028, it is 21,000. Uh, for 30 June 2029, 87,000. Uh, for 30 June 2030, 137,000. And I should say that this is cumulative. So it's not that many of children each year, it's cumulative up until up to a total of 155,000 by 30 June 2031.