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NDIS Commission Regulatory Reform Consultation

The NDIS Review and the Disability Royal Commission showed that many people with disability are not always getting good quality or safe supports that meet their needs and human rights. The NDIS Commission is making changes to regulation to fix these problems.

The NDIS Commission is running consultations to understand how the changes to regulation will impact NDIS participants and their families. You can find more information about the consultations here.

NDIS Commission regulatory reform consultation submissions

Consultation on proposed quality and safeguarding amendments to the NDIS Act (Bill No. 2)

The NDIS Commission has a reform agenda, to improve the quality and safety of supports provided to NDIS participants. NDIS Act (Bill No. 2) aims to improve quality and safeguarding measures that apply to service providers who received NDIS funding.

NDIS Act (Bill No. 2) proposes 10 quality and safeguarding measures in three main areas:

1. Changes to the penalty framework and introducing statutory requirements

2. Safeguarding measures

3. Information gathering.

This submission focuses on potential impacts on services-for-one. Find our service-for-one factsheet here. To inform our submission, we held a formal consultation with the Inclusion Australia Family Reference Group and incorporated their feedback.

You can read our submission here (or click below).

The submission was endorsed by Down Syndrome Australia.

Consultation on self-directed supports registration

People who self-direct their NDIS supports pick the workers they want to hire. The NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce (the Taskforce) had some ideas about how to make NDIS supports better and safer for people who use self-directed supports.

You can find Easy Read information the ideas here.

Inclusion Australia made a submission about how the ideas might impact people with an intellectual disability and their families who plan-manage or self-direct their NDIS supports. We made recommendations for how the NDIS Commission can make sure the new registration system is good and safe for everyone.

Our submission was endorsed by the Down Syndrome Australia Consortium.

You can read our submission here (or click below).