The Summer Foundation welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the National Disability Insurance Agency’s consultation into home and living and the focus on person-centred supports, flexible funding and an ordinary life in the community. This submission responds to the key themes in the consultation paper and makes recommendations to uphold human rights, increase participant choice and control, and build capability among people with disability, families and the disability sector. The proposed Home and Living policy is a significant step towards securing better outcomes for NDIS participants. A flexible and responsive Home and Living policy is essential to stop younger people with disability being forced into Residential Aged Care and to meet the outcomes outlined in the Younger People in Residential Aged Care Action Plan.

The Summer Foundation is hopeful that the recommendations in this consultation paper will support the NDIA's Home and Living policy to ensure participants are at the centre of their plans and are supported to live an ordinary life.