Community Therapy Podcast
Welcome to the Community Therapy Podcast, hosted by Community Therapy founder and director, Scott Lynch. Scott absolutely loves community healthcare and is passionate about healthcare businesses being built on the delivery of great healthcare! Scott commenced his professional career as a Physiotherapist and continues to love nothing more then supporting clients. Most of his time is now spent being privileged and blessed to support and be surrounded by the Community Therapy team. You will find a mix of interviews with:- health professionals about evidence based health care in the community- business founders and managers about how to operate outstanding healthcare businesses- organisations that support the community health sector. We aim to spread awareness about all aspects of community healthcare to ensure people have access to outstanding community and mobile healthcare services.
Community Therapy Podcast
6/01/25 - Aged Care & NDIS Update
Welcome to the Aged Care & NDIS Update! In this episode, Scott Lynch dives into the latest in Aged Care and NDIS, including:
- Wage increases for aged care workers.
- Extra funding for CHSP meal providers.
- Ongoing efforts to combat NDIS fraud.
- Updates to the NDIS Board and Advisory Council.
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In this episode, we talk about aged care wage increases, positive news for CHSP meal providers, a continued focus on NDIS fraud and updates to the NDIS board and IAC. Welcome to the Community Therapy podcast. name is Scott Lynch, founder and managing director at Community Therapy. In this week's bite-size episode, we dive into the previous week's Aged Care and NDIS news. Firstly, for Aged Care, it's been reported via a media release that from January 1st, 340,000 aged care workers in residential and home care will receive an increase in their award. wages. For some workers, this is the first award increase with a further increase commencing from the 1st of October 2025. Specifically, this applies to direct care and general care workers covered by the aged care award and aged care workers covered by the sheds award. The aged care sector will have access to funding to pass on this award wage increase with the government's$3.8 billion investment over four years on top of the $11.3 billion already committed in 2023 to fund the previous award wage increases. This is obviously very positive news to make sure that aged care workers are appropriately remunerated for the wonderful work that they do supporting older adults living at home or within residential aged care. Very positive news for CHSP meal providers as well to ensure their ongoing sustainability. From the 1st of January, all CHSP meal providers will receive a 10 % cost of living top-up of their meal funding to alleviate costs, pressures and reduced impact on service delivery. This will increase funding to CHSP providers by $37 million over the next three years. Updates across NDIS, there's a continued focus on fraud with Bill Shorten reporting via media release that over the last six months, the Fraud Fusion Task Force, commonly referred to the FFT, has executed around 20 warrants and there are currently more than 500 active investigations. In 2024 alone, the NDIA has reported that it has implemented Integrity interventions estimated to save the NDIS over $200 million in forecasted non-compliant or fraudulent payments. The NDIA board has announced two recent appointments as well as the National Disability Insurance Scheme Independent Advisory Council, IAC, has announced five new appointments as well. You can read into additional information about all of these updates via our LinkedIn newsletter, which at the time of recording the 6th of January 2025, Happy New Year everybody, has around 2636 subscribers to be exact to receive weekly updates directly to their inbox written by yours truly summarizing the previous week's Aged Care and NDIS news. This week's episode, like previous week's episode, was brought to you and made possible by our industry leading manual handling training courses, which to date has nearly over or just passing 40,000 support workers having completed our training nationally. If you're an aged care or NDIS organisation looking to improve your manual handling training and to decrease your injuries, please reach out to us for a custom manual handling training package. Thanks so much, everyone. I hope your year has started well. You're feeling rested after the festive season and you're ready for a wonderful 2025. Take care and I'll see you in the next episode.