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This bulletin summarises the Participant Reference Group’s (PRG) recent meeting. The PRG consists of 23 participant and carer representatives across Australia. The PRG is a key platform to ensure the participant voice is heard and understood by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). Feedback from meetings is used to inform strategy, policy development, system and service delivery development and review, to support continuous improvement. Chairperson’s welcome Debbie Irvine, NDIA Director of the Participant First Engagement Initiative and Donna Purcell from the Office of the Participant Advocate, welcomed members to the tenth PRG meeting for 2023. In this meeting we heard...

This is a summary of the Participant Reference Group’s (PRG) recent meeting. The PRG consists of 23 participant and carer representatives across Australia. The PRG is a key platform to ensure the participant voice is heard and understood by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). Feedback from meetings is used to inform strategy, policy development, system and service delivery development and review, to support continuous improvement. Chairperson’s welcome Debbie Irvine, NDIA Director, Participant First, welcomed members to the tenth meeting for 2023. This meeting was a live event held over 2 days in Melbourne, Victoria. Debbie thanked PRG members for...

There are 2 upcoming planned outages. Planned outages allow us to update and improve our systems.

Tearing down barriers to employment for Australians with a disability is the mission of a new joint taskforce, announced by the Federal Government today.

Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Government Services Bill Shorten is thanking Australians for providing critical tip offs to stop fraudsters and crooks ripping off people with disability.

The Independent Advisory Council gave the NDIA advice on how to work with the sector and participants in a different way. We will be holding many workshops and meetings with the Council, and disability representative and carer organisations to get this right.

Participants of the NDIS have co-designed a new Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (CALD) Strategy 2024-2028 (Strategy).

Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (CALD) Strategy and Action Plan 2024-2028 released