As a person on the autism spectrum, having ever-changing support workers has been a source of great anxiety for me. After establishing a relationship with one, they have inevitably left the agency and ...

A 20-year-old autistic man has been "languishing" in a country hospital for nearly a month because his family cannot find suitable skilled support workers. Skilled disability workers are in short ...

Fiona Macdonald receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research on the workforce challenges of the NDIS. She is a voluntary non-executive director of the board of the Brotherhood of ...

Based on an entry level role, aged care workers can be paid 14 per cent more than disability support workers. The CEO of Spinal Life Australia said there needed to be measures to incentivise ...