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NDIS overhaul will ‘harm’ Australians with disabilities, government’s own committee warns

impacts of any changes to the scheme. [Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) Some of the proposed changes will allow the NDIS minister, Mark Butler, to [progressively reduce social participation

Australians with Down’s syndrome among those to suffer most from proposed NDIS cuts government analysis says

Impact Analysis (OIA) revealed the options the Department of [Health](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/health) considered as it looked at improve the quality and cost of the NDIS. The health minister, Mark Butler, [last week introduced

Labor to tighten child NDIS eligibility to curb spending as Queensland MP warns change is ‘failing kids’

NDIS’s most expensive plans are typically reserved for participants with the highest level of needs. [Recent figures](https://dataresearch.ndis.gov.au/explore-data) show about 41,000 participants use supported independent living or disability accommodation. That same

Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending, Mark Butler concedes

participants needed more information about how the scheme would change. “I think the distress and uncertainty that this is causing those people that are on the NDIS and their families today is something that