EMP Supports

26/12/2025

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🚨24 NDIS Providers & Workers BANNED in Victoria in 2025 – Full List 🚨

Victoria has seen 24 individuals and organisations banned from providing NDIS supports or services in 2025.

The Full List of Banned Persons / Organisations
Katreece Milli Knaap – 4-year ban (unsupervised provision of supports)

Timothy James Grady – Permanent ban (working with participants under 16)

Lucien Bwihambi – 18-month ban (providing supports/services under participant plans)

Donna Lee Milroy – Permanent ban (provision & management of NDIS supports/services)

Raju Lamichhane – 2-year ban (providing supports/services)

Jarnail Singh – Permanent ban (providing supports/services)

Robert Milton – 5-year ban (providing supports/services)

Eithyn William Cannon – Permanent ban (provision & management of supports/services)

Kulkiran-Jeet Singh – 5-year ban (provision & management of supports/services)

Chloe Hart – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Joel Sherwood – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Kaleb Bloomer – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Robert Curley – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Adam James Pearce – Permanent ban (provision & management of supports/services)

Diamond Community Care Pty Ltd – Banned from delivering supports/services, auditing, and consulting

Tamara Fox – Permanent ban (management/provision of supports/services)

Andrew Blair – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Bianca Hawkins – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Brittany Webster – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Lani Matthews – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Luke Gronow – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Niranjan Reddy Vonipenti – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Simon Duden – Permanent ban (prohibited restrictive practices)

Ryan Nugara – 2-year ban (providing supports/services to NDIS participants)

Why this matters

These bans are not minor. They protect people with disability from:

Unsafe restrictive practices (prone restraints, basket holds, pin-downs)

Unsupervised or unfit providers

Poor management or misuse of NDIS funds

The message is clear: NDIS accountability is real, and participant safety is paramount.

18/12/2025

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18/12/2025

🎄 Christmas & New Year Support Update – EMP Supports 🎄

To our participants, families, and community, we wish you a safe and peaceful Christmas and New Year.

🌻 Office Closure Update
EMP Supports’ office will be closed over the holiday period and will resume business on 5 January 2026.

🌻 If you receive supports with EMP during this time: Your support schedule has already been finalised. Please refer to your roster — you should be aware of the supports scheduled for you during the shutdown period

🌻 Road Safety Reminder
If you’re travelling, please take extra care on the roads.
NSW double demerits apply from 24 December to 4 January (inclusive).

🌻 Mental Health & Crisis Support (24/7)
The holiday period can be difficult for some people. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, lonely, or unsafe, support is always available:

Lifeline – 13 11 14
Beyond Blue – 1300 22 4636
Su***de Call Back Service – 1300 659 467
NSW Mental Health Access Line – 1800 011 511
In an emergency, call 000

🌻 Financial Support – Illawarra
Free and confidential support is available if finances are causing stress:

National Debt Helpline – 1800 007 007
Anglicare Illawarra – financial counselling & emergency relief
Illawarra Legal Centre – tenancy and legal support

🌻 Not Spending Christmas Alone
If you’re worried about being alone, there are community Christmas lunches and local events across the Illawarra, often hosted by community groups, churches, and organisations such as the Salvation Army.

🌻 Please take care of yourself and reach out for support if you need it. We look forward to reconnecting with you in the new year.

— EMP Supports

17/12/2025

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17/12/2025

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16/12/2025

📣 We are looking to expand our team ! 📣

If you feel this is the fit for you, or have any questions, email: enquires@empsupports.org

12/12/2025

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12/12/2025

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04/12/2025

ALL ARE WELCOME ❤️💛🖤

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02/12/2025

📢 Office Early Closure Notice

Please note that the EMP Supports office will be closed this Friday, 5th December from 12:00pm.

For any rostering matters, please contact us on: 0406 933 619 instead of our office line.

We will reopen and resume normal operations on Monday, 8th December 2025.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation! 💙

26/11/2025

The Senate Order of Business indicates that NDIS Minister, Senator McAllister will introduce the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Integrity and Safeguarding) Bill 2025 this afternoon.

The Bill seeks to strengthen the NDIS Commission’s compliance and enforcement powers and introduce new statutory duties for providers and key personnel. It also aims to expand the scope of regulatory oversight through measures such as stronger penalties, anti-promotion orders and tighter information-gathering powers.

It was signalled that an exposure draft would be released first, however today’s introduction suggests the Government is moving ahead sooner than expected. These proposed reforms recently went out for consultation so we will be watching closely to see whether stakeholder feedback has shaped any changes to the final version.

Stay tuned for updates as we unpack the new Bill when it lands.
In the meantime you can get up to speed with these 👇
🔗 https://teamdsc.com.au/resources/consultation-on-ndis-bill-no-2
🔗 https://teamdsc.com.au/resources/ndis-bill-no-2-consultation-report

25/11/2025

I’ve just finished reading the NDS State of the Disability Sector Report 2025 and honestly… I feel both unsurprised and really sad.

Not because providers don’t want the NDIS to work — we do; by Jesus we do, thats why we turn up, day after day. But so many of us are trying to hold together a system that’s becoming harder to stand inside. when i say “us” its not just a word, its our neighbouring providers, its those we meet with over coffee to cry with each other about how close to the edge of having to shut the doors we really truly are, its real people.

Here’s what the report says, in numbers:

• 85% of providers say operating conditions worsened this year.

• 92% say the policy environment is uncertain.

• 48% are operating at a loss.

• 77% delivered unfunded support, (totalling an estimated $69.18 million - this is care that had to happen, even though it wasn’t paid for)

But the stat I can’t stop thinking about is this:

Specialist Support Coordination has effectively halved, again saddened but not surprised. Providers delivering this service dropped from 52% in 2024 to 26% in 2025.

That figure is not a “market adjustment.”
That’s a vital support disappearing in real time, right Infront of us!

Specialist Support Coordination is the thing that steps in when someone’s plan is complex, when risk is high, when things are falling apart.
It’s what keeps people connected to services before they hit crisis.
It’s what helps families breathe.
It’s what stops small problems becoming unsafe ones.

So when it disappears, the work doesn’t disappear. It just shifts, onto participants, families, already stretched direct support and allied health providers, hospitals, police, emergency departments.

To NDIA: this isn’t providers resisting reform.
This is providers waving a huge help sign!

The report also says:

• 81% can’t keep delivering supports at current prices.

• 80% say staff are exhausted by constant system change.

• 82% don’t feel NDIA is working well with providers.

I still believe the NDIS can be what it was meant to be.

But right now, the supports that make the system safe and navigable are being priced and regulated out of existence.

If Specialist Support Coordination keeps collapsing, i believe this is just the tip of the iceberg, we are 1000% going to see more breakdowns, more crises, and more people left to manage impossible complexity alone. We are going to see preventable death!

We need:
pricing that reflects real, safe delivery

stability while reforms roll out

consistent safeguards that reward quality, not cut corners

genuine two-way work with providers

Because the NDIS at the moment is just Exhausting for everyone who is part of or works alongside the scheme.