NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 2
The NDIS Commission’s core legislative functions are to:
- uphold the rights of, and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of, people with
disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the National
Disability Insurance Scheme
- develop a nationally consistent approach to managing quality and safeguards for people
with disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the
National Disability Insurance Scheme
- promote the provision of advice, information, education and training to NDIS providers
and people with disability
- secure compliance with relevant legislation through effective compliance and
enforcement arrangements, including through the monitoring and investigation
functions conferred on the NDIS Commissioner by legislation
- promote continuous improvement amongst NDIS providers and the delivery of
progressively higher standards of supports and services to people with disability
- develop and oversee the broad policy design for a nationally consistent framework
relating to the screening of workers involved in the provision of supports and services to
people with disability
- engage in, promote and coordinate the sharing of information to achieve the objects of
the relevant legislation, and
- provide NDIS market oversight, including:
I. by monitoring changes in the NDIS market which may indicate emerging risk;
and
II. by monitoring and mitigating the risks of unplanned service withdrawal.
The NDIS Commission is committed to upholding the rights of people with disability to
employment and offers interesting and challenging roles. People with disability are
encouraged to apply for jobs in the NDIS Commission.