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 24 August 2022.

Leah talked about our advice for the NDIA Board.

Our advice was about:

• behaviour supports – ways to support how a person acts or behaves

• making sure the NDIS is fair and includes everyone.

And we are writing 2 documents about our advice.

We will share these documents with the NDIA Board.

Leah also talked about the recent work our Council Members have done with the NDIA.

This work was about making guides to understand supports better.

Lisa is the Acting Chief Executive Officer at the NDIA.

This means she’s running the NDIA for a period of time.

Lisa explained the Australian Government will review the NDIS.

When the Australian Government reviews something, they check to see what:

• works well
• can be better.

Lisa also explained other work the NDIA will do.

The NDIA is working to reduce how many cases the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) look after.

And the NDIA will create a team to do this.

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

They review our decisions about:

• who can join the NDIS
• NDIS plans.

The NDIA will work with hospitals and health departments to make it easier for participants when they’re ready to leave hospital.

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

The NDIA will also find better ways to protect participants from people doing the wrong thing.

For example, providers charging for services they don't provide.