Important updates

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission)

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The NDIS Commission makes sure people with disability who take part in the NDIS:

  • are safe
  • get good services.

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The NDIS Commission is working to get more providers registered.

This includes making sure their rules work well.

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Council Members shared they should make sure providers give good service to children.

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The NDIS Commission should think about how people with disability choose between:

  • registered providers
  • unregistered providers.

Our co-design work

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Leah asked about our co-design projects.

Co-design is when people work together to plan something new.

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Council Members shared their ideas about the participant safety co-design.

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They shared that groups of people the NDIA works with on co-design shouldn’t be kept apart.

They should all work together.

Council Members also shared that it’s important to:

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  • share information

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  • listen to everyone.

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They shared that the participant safety co-design should think about what support:

  • children and adults need
  • people of different genders need.

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Gender is what you feel and understand about who you are as a person.

It isn’t about whether your body looks male or female.

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Council Members also shared that the participant safety co-design:

  • is important
  • will save lives.