00:00Thriving Kids was a program that was announced last year by the federal government and it was
00:06really to relieve some pressure off the National Disability Insurance Scheme which has grown to
00:10cost about 50 billion dollars a year. Now the aim was to create a system of supports outside of the
00:17NDIS for what the government says are children with mild to moderate developmental delay or
00:24autism. So it noticed that it was one of the sort of growing key areas was children on the NDIS.
00:32So today we've had some more details about what Thriving Kids will look like. We've always known
00:38that it would be a set of supports that would be run by the states and territories funded in
00:43joint partnership with the Commonwealth but today we know a little bit more about how it'll work. So
00:48it'll have kind of four key areas. The first is identifying these children with developmental delay
00:54or autism. The second is sharing information with those families so it might be pointing them in
00:59the direction of a peer support group or an online you know website that will provide some more
01:04information. The third is really to essentially give the parents skills to be able to support their
01:11children at home and the fourth is really around directing them to supports and services and those
01:16could be in the school, in the child care centre, it might be something as simple as teachers providing
01:22some extra support to the students in class or a bit more for example a speech therapist coming into
01:28a school and actually doing classes with the students. Now Minister Mark Butler the NDIS Minister
01:34has held a press conference today and talked about what this will all look like and mean and he has
01:39said that you know it's really important to build the capacity of parents to support their children.
01:45It's not rocket science it's been quite well understood that the best thing you can do for a child who is not
01:50hitting developmental milestones is to provide parents with support to support their own children.
01:57Everyone was feeling very anxious and nervous when Thriving Kids was announced it was announced with
02:03very little warning and parents were thinking well where is my child with developmental delay or autism
02:10what's going to happen to them to their supports and will they continue to thrive if they're moved off the
02:14NDIS or they don't get access to it in the first place. I think the picture is a little clearer today
02:20about potentially how that's going to look when it all rolls out starts to roll out on October 1st this
02:27year it'll take two years to fully roll out but I think some of the real sentiments will be around
02:34parents feeling that they are going to be shouldering all of that support on their own and
02:40and are they going to be able to manage that and also there's a bigger question I think that teachers and
02:45and care providers will have in these early childhood and school settings to go well how is the workforce
02:50now going to cope with all of this and the community has already started to contact me saying
02:55is that workforce ready probably not right now
03:05you
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