23 January 2024.
A Parliamentary Inquiry into rural, regional and remote participant experience of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is underway.
If you have experience with the NDIS and you have some views that you would like to let the National Rural Health Alliance know about for their submission, they would value hearing from you.
You can provide input to the National Rural Health Alliance for their submission:
Contact Ms Susi Tegen
Chief Executive Officer
National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA)
susanne.tegen@ruralhealth.org.au
OR, if you would like to do your own, please see the details below.
Inquiry into the NDIS participant experience in rural, regional and remote Australia
The Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has initiated a new inquiry into the NDIS participant experience in rural, regional and remote Australia. The terms of reference for the inquiry are included below:
As part of the committee’s role to inquire into the implementation, performance and governance of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the committee will inquire into and report on the NDIS participant experience in rural, regional and remote Australia, with particular reference to:
- the experience of applicants and participants at all stages of the NDIS, including application, plan design and implementation, and plan reviews;
- the availability, responsiveness, consistency, and effectiveness of the National Disability Insurance Agency in serving rural, regional and remote participants;
- participants’ choice and control over NDIS services and supports including the availability, accessibility, cost and durability of those services;
- the particular experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants, participants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and participants from low socio-economic backgrounds, with the NDIS; and
- any other related matters.
You can access more information about this new inquiry on the committee’s website.
The committee invites you to provide a written submission to the inquiry by 23 February 2024.
The committee is seeking to publicise its work as widely as possible and would appreciate you referring this letter of invitation to any individual, group, or organisation that you think would like to contribute to the inquiry.
Making a submission
Submissions should include the name of the relevant inquiry – NDIS participant experience in rural, regional and remote Australia.
The committee is seeking written submissions in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to ndis.joint@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word document. Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Joint Standing Committee on the National Disability Insurance Scheme
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Submissions should include your name, phone number, and postal address so that we can contact you.
Personal contact details are removed from submissions before their publication.
Further information on making a submission to a committee inquiry is attached for your reference You can also find information on the Parliament website.
The committee secretariat can also assist you via phone (02) 6277 3083 or email ndis.joint@aph.gov.au. More information about this committee is available at: www.aph.gov.au/joint_ndis.
Requests for confidentiality
Please note that submissions are confidential until the committee releases them. You must not release your submission until the committee advises that it has accepted and released it publicly. Submissions are protected by parliamentary privilege but the unauthorised release of them is not.
The committee will normally make submissions public unless there is a request for confidentiality.
If you would like your submission or part of it to be kept confidential, please say so clearly in the submission.
The committee will consider requests for confidentiality, but it cannot make promises in advance. If you have concerns about confidentiality, I encourage you to call the secretariat to discuss this before lodging the submission.