THE Liberals’ Andrew Wall wants to know what is going to happen to early intervention services in the transition to the NDIS.

“There is a rising level of anxiety amongst parents, carers, teachers and advocates about what services will be in place and operational to provide the services that are slated to be discontinued as the ACT moves to transition to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS),” Andrew said.

“The Minister has failed to address the anxiety and concerns of vulnerable families and has not done enough to ensure providers are well placed to be operational by the end of the year.

“The ACT government has received $12.5 million in Commonwealth funding to develop the market and build capacity among non-government service providers in the lead up to the commencement of the NDIS trial. However, there are still no details available about who exactly will provide early intervention services for the 300 children currently accessing them in schools and pre-schools across the ACT.

“I am hearing from organisations in this space that they have no plans to set up business in the ACT and in fact were not even aware that there was an opportunity for them here.

“Joy Burch has only one option left and that is to support my call to keep providing services until alternatives are well and truly in place,” Mr Wall concluded.