Consultative Forums 2025 to 2027
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is refreshing its 2 consultative forums. These forums will ensure that the voices of people with disability and the disability sector are central to its work.
The forums will create opportunities for people with disability, providers, advocates and sector representatives to share insights and lived experience. This advice will inform the NDIS Commission’s decision-making, regulatory priorities and strategic direction, consistent with the NDIS Act 2013.
The 2 forums are:
- Advisory Council: amplifying the voices of people with disability.
- Sector Consultation Forum: providing insights from across the disability sector.
Diversity and inclusion
Membership of both forums will reflect the NDIS Commission’s commitment to intersectional diversity. Appointments will seek representation from people with disability and from organisations that deliver services or provide support to people with disability, including:
- people with intellectual disability
- First Nations peoples with disability
- culturally and linguistically diverse people with disability
- LGBTIQA+ people with disability
- people with disability living in rural and remote locations
- young people with disability
- women with disability.
Advisory Council
The Advisory Council is an independent advisory body that provides strategic advice to the Commission’s leadership on issues affecting people with disability. Its purpose is to embed and amplify the voices of people with disability in the Commission’s work, ensuring regulatory decisions reflect lived experience.
The council will include 12 members, appointed for terms of up to 24 months. Members will bring lived experience, leadership and expertise across disability rights, advocacy, service delivery, policy and governance. See the Advisory Council Terms of Reference.
Advisory Council commitment
Members will attend 2 meetings each year, with a pre-meeting before each. Preparation and follow-up are expected, with out-of-session consultations as required.
Sector Consultation Forum
The Sector Consultation Forum is an independent forum that provides the Commission’s leadership with sector wide regulatory and operational insights on the delivery of NDIS services and supports, in accordance with Chapter 6A, Part 2 of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (the Act).
The forum will include up to 20 members representing a broad cross-section of the disability sector, including service providers, advocacy organisations, professional disciplines and community organisations. Members will be appointed for up to 24 months and will reflect the diversity of the sector. See the Sector Consultation Forum Terms of Reference.
Sector Consultation Forum commitment
Members will attend 2 meetings each year. Preparation and follow-up are expected, with out-of-session consultations as required.
Express interest in the Advisory Council or Sector Consultation Forum
The NDIS Commission is inviting people to express their interest in becoming a member of the Advisory Council or Sector Consultation Forum.
- You may be asked to attend an interview as part of the selection process.
- Interviews may be held online or in person. Reasonable adjustments will be made to ensure accessibility for each candidate.
Application opportunities
You can express interest in these opportunities:
- Advisory Council – 12 members
- Sector Consultation Forum – Up to 20 members
Timeline
Expressions of interest open: 1 December 2025
Expressions of interest close: 9 January 2026
Members appointed: Early February to mid-March 2026
First meetings: Early 2026
The Advisory Council members will be selected based on the following criteria:
- The Council values lived experience of disability and membership will reflect intersectional diversity.
- Leadership experience may include advocacy, policy, program design, service delivery, governance or research.
- Members may bring knowledge in areas such as:
- regulatory frameworks, law reform,
- human rights, safeguarding, or quality assurance,
- inclusive practice, and universal design
- strategic governance.
- Experience may also include sectors linked with disability, such as
- health, or education,
- housing or employment.
- Understand challenges and opportunities across life stages and settings, with an intersectional perspective.
The Sector Consultation Forum members will be selected based on the following criteria:
- The Forum values lived experience of disability and members who work with or represent groups reflecting intersectional diversity.
- Members will bring knowledge and experience across the NDIS provider sector. This will span service types, advocacy organisations, professional disciplines, and community focused organisations. Members will contribute experience in operational delivery. They will also bring knowledge of regulatory matters, market stewardship, and provider readiness.
- Members will understand the NDIS environment. This including quality and safeguarding requirements, and the challenges faced by providers. They will be aware of market trends, emerging risks, and the potential impacts on regulatory reforms.
- Members will show the capacity to review and respond to sector insights. They will identify upcoming issues and raise matters requiring the NDIS Commission’s focus. Provide practical, forward-looking advice that supports a safe, sustainable, and high-quality disability sector.
How to apply
To apply, please complete this online form where you will tell us about yourself, your skills and your experience.
More information
For questions about the application process, please email the Secretariat at committee@ndiscommission.gov.au.