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The Children’s Expert Advisory Group (CEAG) met on 18 December 2025. The meeting was held online. Focus of the meeting The Chair, Amity Durham, Deputy CEO, Children, Specialised Services and Scheme Interfaces, National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) opened the meeting. The focus of the December 2025 meeting included updates on work to review the pricing of NDIS supports, early work developing a new support needs assessment approach for young children in the NDIS, and outcomes from workshops held with members out of session. Market reforms – pricing update The NDIA has released 2 discussion papers and surveys seeking input to...

The NDIA wants to make sure its work is culturally safe. This means creating systems, services, and workplaces where First Nations people with disability feel respected, valued and heard.

This is a summary of the NDIS Co-design Advisory Group (CAG) meeting on 23 June 2025.

Quote from attendee: The experience needs to be fair and supportive. Some people are helpful, but others are not. We need consistency- and trust and transparency are key. What we talked about Topic 1: Blue-sky thinking around Support Needs Assessments (SNA) The group stepped back from current processes to explore fresh, creative ideas for the experience of a Support Needs Assessment. In breakout rooms, parent and carers chose their own discussion topics using research materials as prompts. Facilitators supported only when needed, keeping the conversation parent and carer led. Topic 2: Exploring the plan handover phase – meeting and discussing...

This is a summary of the Participant Reference Group’s (PRG) meeting. The Participant Reference Group (PRG) makes sure the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) hears and understands the participant voice. The PRG has 23 members from participant and carer organisations across Australia.

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has published the NDIA Position Statement Conflicts of Interest in the NDIS Provider Market . From May to July 2024, the NDIA met with participants, providers, and disability organisations to understand experiences people have had with conflicts of interest and what resources would help support them to manage the conflicts. Following the co-design sessions, the NDIA developed the Position Statement, information and resources to support and educate participants and providers on conflicts of interest in the NDIS provider market.

The NDIA wants to make sure its work is culturally safe. This means creating systems, services, and workplaces where First Nations people with disability feel respected, valued and heard.

Key themes and insights from the Disability Representative and Carers Organisation (DRCO) Forum held on 20 November 2025.

The NDIA has released an Inclusive Recruitment guide. This guide is for NDIS employment providers.

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...