PWDA Member Survey on Mandatory Registration of Platform Providers, Supported Independent Living (SIL) and Support Coordination
29 January 2025
Introduction
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is currently running two consultations on the mandatory registration of:
PWDA is preparing responses to these consultations and would like to hear from you!
Complete the survey at the bottom of the page or click the button to open the survey in another window.
Background
In recent years, the Australian Government, the NDIA and the NDIS Commission have conducted a number of inquiries, which have looked into aspects of platform providers, SIL and Support Coordination.
These have included:
- recent consultations to inform the development of new NDIS Practice Standards for SIL
- the NDIS Review
- the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (Disability Royal Commission)
- the NDIS Registration taskforce consultations.
In the inquiries, it was found that significant work is needed to safeguard NDIS Participants who use platform providers, SIL and support coordination.
In response to this, the Minister for Government Services and the NDIS, the Hon Bill Shorten MP, announced in September 2024 that mandatory registration would be introduced for all platform providers and providers of supported independent living (SIL) and support coordination.
The NDIS Commission is currently accepting feedback on this proposal and would like to hear from people with disability on matters such as:
- the approach to registration
- the impact on NDIS participants
- the impact on providers.
Consultations close on 7 March 2025. You can read the consultation papers and learn more about the consultation and respond directly on the NDIS Commission website.
You can also fill out our survey and your feedback will be included in PWDA's submission.
Who is the survey for
This survey is open to all PWDA members, including people with disability, their family carers, supporters and advocates. It is open to people who are NDIS participants and people who are not. However, some of the questions may not be relevant to people who have never been NDIS participants.
Privacy and Safety
The feedback you provide in this survey will be used only for the purposes of PWDA's submissions to the consultations.
All feedback will be de-identified. This means your name or details will not be mentioned in the submissions and no one will be able to use your feedback to identify who you are.
All questions in the survey are optional. You do not have to answer anything you do not want to. You can exit the survey at any time.
The survey will be open until Thursday 20 February.
Support to Complete the Survey
You can get support to fill out this survey. You can ask a family member, friend or support person to help you. If you would like to give feedback in another format (e.g. via phone) you can contact us at:
1800 422 015
