The NDIS has become one of Australia’s greatest scandals with myriad problems resulting in people in genuine need not receiving the care and support that they deserve and are entitled to.

Bureaucracy Beat has highlighted the problems on several occasions, in particular the number of bogus providers who have rorted the system, wasting literally billions of dollars of public money.

The latest revelation is that hundreds of Queensland NDIS providers have been banned, had their registration revoked or issued compliance notices.

The Courier Mail newspaper reported on 9 September that hundreds of NDIS providers across Queensland have been reprimanded for a raft of failings as the federal government scrambles to clean up the mess created by poor administration of the scheme.

The Courier Mail reported, tens of thousands of Queenslanders living with disabilities rely on the NDIS to live a meaningful and comfortable life, yet some providers continue to take advantage of the system.

And since twenty nineteen, the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has reprimanded six twenty two NDIS providers in Queensland alone with banning orders, compliance notices, re register refusals, revocation of registrations and suspension of registrations with around one hundred and twenty of them issued a banning notice.

Breaching an active order can lead to federal court penalties of up to one point six million pounds for companies and three hundred and thirty thousand for individuals.

And some of the more extreme cases would absolutely horrify most people.

The Courier Mail reported that in Hervey Bay, one NDIS worker was banned and jailed after giving drugs to a client with the mental capacity of a child before performing sexual acts on him.

In Bundaberg, a woman posing as a disability carer collected almost a hundred thousand dollars from logging claims of cleaning and errands that she never completed for her clients, using the money to help fund the lifestyle of drug use and gambling.

Now this person was registered as an NDIS approved carer in twenty eighteen and accumulated over ninety seven thousand dollars in false claims over eighteen months before being arrested.

And after pleading guilty in the Bundaberg District Court to two counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception, she was sentenced to two and a half years jail and ordered to pay fifty thousand dollars in reparation.

The Queenslanders with Disability Network chief executive Michelle Moss said people living with disability had the right to safe high quality supports that uphold dignity, choice and control and she said, where providers fail to meet critical safety and safeguarding standards, there must be timely regulatory action to protect people from harm.

She said, people with disability must be able to raise concerns safely, be heard and have confidence that complaints will lead to action when needed.

They also need the funded supports they require to live their day to day life.

Sadly, the NDIS has become a bureaucratic monster of a system which is failing too many of the people that we’re supposed to be helping.