Leah van Poppel ran the last meeting.

She is the Council’s Principal Member.

She’s also a member of the NDIA Board.

The NDIA Board is a group of people who make decisions about all parts of the NDIA.

It was held on 17 October 2022.

Leah thanked Dr Lisa Studdert for her work.

Dr Studdert is the Acting Chief Executive Officer at the NDIA.

This means she runs the NDIA for a period of time.

Leah said that Council is looking forward to working with Ms Rebecca Falkingham.

Rebecca will be the new CEO of the NDIA.

She will start on 18 October 2022.

Dr Lisa Studdert shared what the ministers for disability will talk about at their meeting this week.

A minister leads an area of government.

Dr Studdert explained that the NDIA is making the Independent Expert Review program.

In this document we call it the new program.

The new program will give participants another option when they don’t agree with a decision the NDIS made.

Participants are people with disability who take part in the NDIS.

At the moment participants can only use the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) when they don’t agree with a decision the NDIS made.

The AAT is a government organisation that is separate to the NDIS.

They review the NDIA’s decisions about:

who can join the NDIS

NDIS plans.

Participants will be able to use the new program while they wait for the AAT.

Mr Graeme Innes AM will run a committee to watch over the program.

A committee is a group of people who meet to talk about ideas.