Blogs by Aspirico Team

Person-centred planning, practices and terminology are well recognized across disability and community services. Most service providers have some reference to a person-centred approach on their website, so it would be assumed that they practice this client-led...

Are you finding that risks override how people supported can participate in their life? Are you looking to endorse personalised risk management to be risk-aware over risk-averse, to empower people living with a disability, improve the quality of service provided, and...

Significant changes to disability policies have shifted at all levels of Government across Australia and New Zealand over the decades. Service providers have moved away from institutional, outdated approaches towards more community oriented service provisions.   ...

Since Medicare, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is Australia’s most significant social policy project. The NDIS promises to revolutionise disability services and give people with disability more choice and control; but is it doing as promised? Are...

2021 has been an exciting year for Aspirico in Australia and New Zealand . Despite the pandemic restrictions on travel, we continued to grow both the team on the ground and our client base. In order to meet the increased demand of new customer system configurations...

Last week the New Zealand government announced a Disability Systems Transformation: The creation of a Ministry for Disabled People to be led by people with disabilities. New Zealand has been working on Disability System Transformation for more than a decade; the...

What is World Mental Health Day? World mental health day will be celebrated on the 10th of October. The celebration started in 1994, with the aim of prioritising and focusing on the important aspects of public mental health. Every year, there is a theme. This year’s...

R U OK?Day was on Thursday the 9th of September 2021 We are busy people and often juggle work, home and school life under one roof; we don't commute far from home, nor do we engage in the wider community, and socialise as we used to. This day, R U OK?Day, is on the...

The last 15 months brought with it many levels of change in both home and working life. One important area of working life, staff training, had to move from majority classroom based to remote learning. While remote staff training has its challenges, there are many...

This week (14th-20th June) is Learning Disability Week in the UK, organised by Mencap. The primary aim of the event is to raise public awareness of learning disabilities and those living with them, and it is still needed more than ever. A 2018 study by Scope found...