The Federal Government has announced the membership of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Advisory Group. This key Group will provide advice to all governments on the foundation reforms required to establish the NDIS.
Chaired by the former head of FaHCSIA, Jeff Harmer, the Group includes NDS Chief Executive Ken Baker and the Chair of NDS WA (and CEO of the Autism Association of WA), Joan McKenna-Kerr.
The other members are:
- Bruce Bonyhady, Chairman of Yooralla and President of Philanthropy Australia;
- Brendan O'Reilly, former Director-General of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet;
- Rhonda Galbally, Chair of the National People with Disabilities and Carer Council;
- Lorna Hallahan, Senior lecturer in Social Work at Flinders University and Chair of the SA Disability Advisory Council; and
- Fran Vickery, the Manager of Queenslanders with Disability Network.
Among the foundation stones for the NDIS are workforce capacity; person-centred services, nationally-consistent assessment tools, fair and efficient pricing and quality requirements. Governance and funding arrangements are also critically important.
COAG's newly-established Select Council on Disability Reform, which includes the Treasurers and Disability Ministers from all jurisdictions, will meet later this month to consider a work plan.
The Federal Department FaHCSIA has established a special unit focussed on the NDIS, headed by senior official Nick Hartland.
In her opening address to last week's Tax Forum, the Prime Minister said that economic reform is helping to build the base to "better provide services, whether it be in health or whether it be now in the journey towards a National Disability Insurance Scheme."
Bruce Bonyhady, will facilitate a key session on the next steps for the NDIS at the CEO Meeting on 5-6 December in Canberra.
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