WORKFORCE Building a skilled Best practice Code of Conduct for Promoting a workforce recruitment/supervision individual workers safe and (including monitoring competent Links to: National Framework through complaints workforce for Protecting Australia’s and serious incident Links to: Integrated Children reporting systems) Market, Sector and Workforce Strategy Worker screening – ensuring staff are safe to work with people with disability SUPPLIERS Capacity building & Reducing restrictive Code of conduct - OF best practice practices – transparency and reporting and SUPPORTS reporting investigations Encouraging Links to: National safe, Links to: Sector Framework for Reducing innovative, Development Fund and Eliminating high quality Restrictive Practices support provision National Standards for Disability Services, NDIS Practice Standards. Quality Assurance, Regulation and Compliance – proportionate risk-based requirements Appendix 2: Summary of Cost Benefit Results In order to assess the net social benefits of the proposed regulatory measures in the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework, DSS commissioned the NOUS Group to undertake an Impact Analysis of the proposals set out in the Consultation RIS. The options modelled were those set out in the Consultation RIS. The data was not included in the text of the RIS as it should be regarded as broadly indicative only, given the poor quality of the base data it relies on, and the difficulty of estimating likely impacts of
WORKFORCE Promoting a safe and competent workforce Building a skilled workforce Links to: Integrated Market, Sector and Workforce Strategy Best practice recruitment/supervision Links to: National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children Worker screening – ensuring staff are safe to work with people with disability Code of Conduct for individual workers (including monitoring through complaints and serious incident reporting systems) SUPPLIERS OF SUPPORTS Encouraging safe, innovative, high quality support provision Capacity building & best practice Links to: Sector Development Fund Reducing restrictive practices – transparency and reporting Links to: National Framework for Reducing and Eliminating Restrictive Practices National Standards for Disability Services, NDIS Practice Standards. Quality Assurance, Regulation and Compliance – proportionate risk-based requirements Code of conduct - reporting and investigations Appendix 2: Summary of Cost Benefit Results In order to assess the net social benefits of the proposed regulatory measures in the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework, DSS commissioned the NOUS Group to undertake an Impact Analysis of the proposals set out in the Consultation RIS. The options modelled were those set out in the Consultation RIS. The data was not included in the text of the RIS as it should be regarded as broadly indicative only, given the poor quality of the base data it relies on, and the difficulty of estimating likely impacts of
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