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Catherine Smith, Senior Lecturer of Wellbeing Science, The University of Melbourne

If parents designed the new ‘Thriving Kids’ program, it’d look like this

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Thriving Kids is a planned national program for children aged eight and under with developmental delay or autism who are assessed as having low to moderate support needs.

The idea is to move these children out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and into the new program, with its first services expected from July 2026.

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