Online roundtables - General Foundational Supports

Join us for an online roundtable to have your say on General Foundational Supports.

PLEASE NOTE: There are 8 different dates and times you can choose from when you register for this event. *Please select your preferred date during registration.

NEW Dates: due to demand we have released two more new events:

Monday 4 NOVEMBER 2024 - Online Roundtable 7 - General Supports (national) 12.00-2.30pm AEDT
Tuesday 19 OCTOBER 2024 - Online Roundtable 8 - General Supports (national) 12.00-2.30pm AEDT

Governments are working together to design and deliver additional supports in the community. These are known as Foundational Supports. Foundational Supports are specific supports that would be outside the NDIS to help people with disability, and their families and carers.

This consultation event is about General foundational supports (called General Supports). General Supports will include things like trusted information and guidance, peer supports and capacity building that help people and their families to engage in the community and to advocate for – and make decisions about – matters that affect them.

About the online roundtables

These roundtables will be held via Microsoft Teams. They will go for 2 hours. *A link to access the event will be emailed to you prior to the event.

These roundtables are for anyone with an interest in general foundational supports.

You will be asked for your ideas about what you and your community needs to improve:

• access to trustworthy information, including information about services
• skills and capacity of individuals to make decisions and connect within their community
• support for families and carers to empower them in their role as carers
• information to help community organisations and public services to be more inclusive to the needs of people with disability.

Feedback received through these engagement activities will inform thinking on the design of general foundational supports.

The Department of Social Services is leading the consultations. For more information about Foundational Supports, please contact foundational.supports@dss.gov.au.

Accessibility

Event information packs will be distributed to the email you register with prior to this event. It will have more information about general foundational supports and how the event will run.

The roundtables will include:

• Auslan interpreters that can be seen on the screen at all times
• Live captions that can be accessed via a separate screen if needed.

Please let us know if you have any other accessibility requirements when you register for the event.

Support to register or attend

The Social Deck is coordinating the events on behalf of the Department of Social Services.

If you need help to register, please contact The Social Deck at email engage@thesocialdeck.com or phone 0458 228 142 (business hours, AEST).

Privacy

Your personal information is protected by law, including under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).

The way your data is collected, managed and stored is outlined in the Privacy Collection Notice Consultation Events | engage.dss.gov.au

During the registration process, The Social Deck and/or the Department of Social Services may collect your name, contact information and name of your organisation.

Your personal information will be shared with The Social Deck and other parties where the disclosure is required or authorised by law. It will not be shared with any other parties.

The Department of Social Services' Privacy Policy, including information about how to make a complaint and access to and correction of your personal information, can be found on their website. The Social Deck’s privacy policy is also available on their website .