The Report

which runs the NDIS, as well as the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and the Fraud Fusion Taskforce.

SRSs are privately run operations that provide supported accommodation to older people and those living with disability.

Of the 4,000 people living in SRSs across Victoria, an estimated 1,600 are NDIS participants. The majority live with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities.

MHLC general manager Charlotte Jones said she was aware of around 70 people having been "kidnapped" across the SRS system.

"As a number of SRS facilities were closed, residents either disappeared … or were taken from facilities, often at night, and deposited into alternative accommodation," she said.

"Some have ended up in hospital, some were back at the SRS, and some have ended up back at other SRSs.

"We don't believe that they go understanding where they're going."

The report's findings include:

• People with complex needs and limited family support "have become a target" for unscrupulous providers "they have become a … valuable and disposable commodity"

• Illegitimate and "vaguely worded" invoices are being used to "bump up income revenue for accommodation providers"

• There is a "growing trend of predatory companies utilising Supported Independent Living (SIL) resources to increase their income revenue", including