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.
Timeline
Expressions of interest closed: 9 January 2026
Members appointed: Early February to mid-March 2026
First meetings: Early 2026
More information
For questions about the application process, please email the Secretariat at committee@ndiscommission.gov.au.