A woman whose made-up terminal cancer was exposed on national television three years ago is now accused of providing NDIS support to children with disability while her working with children clearance was suspended.
Jaimie Winder, 40, who also uses the surname Wrigley, is under investigation by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission after former colleagues raised the alarm with A Current Affair.
The UK citizen’s Blue Card, Queensland’s mandatory screening for child-related work, was suspended in November 2025. Despite this, records reportedly show she kept delivering one-on-one support to NDIS participants, among them an eight-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy, until at least October this year.
In Queensland, anyone providing NDIS or disability services to a child must hold a Blue Card. Doing that work without valid screening is a criminal offence that carries a penalty of up to five years in jail.
Now living in Brisbane, Winder was the sole director of registered NDIS provider Easy Planning Pty Ltd until June 2026, roughly seven months after her Blue Card was suspended.
She stepped down from that role but still owns the business outright through a second company, Enriched Pathways Pty Ltd. Former staff claim she remains closely involved in how Easy Planning is run day to day.
The concerns came to light when Bayleigh Weeks, who previously worked as a support worker at Easy Planning, went to Queensland Police and Blue Card Services in October. She says she discovered Winder was working with minors without the required clearance.
Weeks told A Current Affair the behaviour should have been stopped long ago, and that children were now caught up in it.
“She does not have a Blue Card,” Weeks said.
In a conversation Weeks recorded, Winder appeared to ask her to keep quiet about the clearance. “All I ask is that you don’t say anything about my Blue Card,” Winder said, adding that no one had been told she was working without it.
Weeks alleges Winder saw the NDIS as a money-maker and often spoke about chasing “high-rolling clients”. She claims Winder would spend whole weekends providing respite care to one of the boys, billing what Weeks estimated at around $16,000 per weekend.
The complaint lodged with authorities lists several incidents in which children’s safety was allegedly put at risk:
Weeks says she began looking into Winder after learning of the 2023 A Current Affair story, and has given all her evidence to authorities. None of the allegations have been tested in court.
Winder first made headlines in June 2023, when A Current Affair found her living in Logan, south of Brisbane, after friends in Perth and Mount Isa accused her of inventing a string of tragedies.
Colleagues in Mount Isa said she told them her mother had died of cancer in England and that her father had then taken his own life. Both parents turned out to be alive. She also claimed an ex-boyfriend had died of a brain aneurysm; he later spoke to the program on a video call.
She then told co-workers she had terminal cancer and produced a letter describing chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The local hospital later said it had no record of the letter, and that the doctors named on it were not working there at the time. In Perth, she had previously admitted her parents were alive and confessed to arranging a fake Stage 4 cancer letter.
One Mount Isa colleague, Lisa Gallagher, drove her more than 4000 kilometres on an “end of life” road trip along the Queensland coast, covering most of the costs herself. “It seemed very real,” Gallagher said at the time.
This week, another former colleague, Sulett Van Wyk, told the program about an 11-month friendship with Winder. It ended when Van Wyk found out Winder had invented five separate assaults, and that an “ex-husband” she said had died was actually a former housemate who is still alive.
Van Wyk, who also works in disability support, says Winder knew the rules. “It’s a no-card, no-start policy in the NDIS,” she said.
HelloCare has contacted Queensland Police and Easy Planning for comment but had not received a response at the time of publication.
In a statement, Queensland’s Department of Justice said Blue Card Services investigates every report of risk to children. Where it believes a potentially high-risk breach of Blue Card rules has occurred, the matter is referred to Queensland Police.
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission confirmed it is looking into the matter, and said it will act against providers and workers who fail to meet their obligations to participants.
Anyone with concerns about an NDIS provider or worker can contact the NDIS Commission on 1800 035 544 or lodge a complaint through its online complaint form. More information on the process is available on the Commission’s making a complaint page.
