Meet the new NDIS Taskforce to deliver better outcomes from today
National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister Bill Shorten announced the assembly of a new NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce today.
The taskforce will be headed by lawyer and disability advocate, Natalie Wade; former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Allan Fels; former Australian Council of Trade Unions Assistant Secretary, training and safety expert Michael Borowick and former Administrator of the Northern Territory Vicki O’Halloran.
The taskforce was created in response to the final report from the independent NDIS Review that was published in December of 2023.
Minister Shorten announced that the taskforce will work together with the disability community to deliver better outcomes for participants and provide expert advice to government on overhauling the current registration system.
The government will consider recommendations from the taskforce, set to be delivered in mid-2024, to design a graduated risk-proportionate regulatory model and a new provider risk framework.
“The new regulatory system currently being designed will help ensure no one is invisible or forgotten on the NDIS,” Minister Shorten said.
“Australia can lead the world in a regulation model of disability services, including delivering trail-blazing solutions like we want to achieve with the NDIS.
Minister Shorten
“To do this, we need to overhaul the current shoddy and inconsistent registration by making it more transparent and targeted to deliver quality and consistent outcomes that reach all groups of participants and providers.”
The disability community and the NDIS provider market will inform the efforts of the taskforce to ensure greater oversight of those responsible for delivering services through the NDIS while continuing to promote choice and control for the participants who receive those supports.
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