Bill
National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Quality and Safeguards Commission and Other Measures) Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-12-13. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-05-31
- second reading — 2017-05-31
- second reading — 2017-06-21
- second reading — 2017-06-21
- third reading — 2017-06-21
- introduced — 2017-06-22
- second reading — 2017-06-22
- second reading — 2017-11-29
- second reading — 2017-11-29
- committee — 2017-11-29
- third reading — 2017-11-29
- other — 2017-12-04
- passed — 2017-12-04
- royal assent — 2017-12-13
Divisions
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Quality and Safeguards Commission and Other Measures) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Royal Commission into Violence and Abuse against People with Disability — 2017-06-21, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 69, noes 78
- National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Quality and Safeguards Commission and Other Measures) Bill 2017 - Consideration of Senate Message - Speed things along — 2017-12-04, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 76, noes 72
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-05-31.
The bill would create a national commission to protect people with disability from harm caused by poor-quality NDIS supports or services.
The commission would be an independent statutory body that registers and regulates providers, monitors compliance, handles complaints, and sets national standards for worker screening and behaviour support.
The bill also includes administrative changes to the NDIS Act following a 2015 independent review.
- Establishes an independent national commission for quality and safeguards under the NDIS.
- Introduces national obligations and standards for all NDIS providers and workers, including a Code of Conduct.
- Replaces the current fragmented state-based quality and safeguards system with a nationally consistent approach.
People with disability, their families and carers, NDIS providers and workers, and state and territory governments.
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