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This is a summary of the Participant Reference Group’s (PRG) recent meeting. The PRG consists of 22 participant and carer representatives across Australia. The PRG is a key platform to ensure the participant voice is heard and understood by the NDIA.

Summer Foundation are co-designing a housing roadmap with NDIS participants including those with complex communication needs. The project will co-design online tools and resources for participants to: navigate their housing journey foster awareness of diverse options build confidence to identify and work towards their home and living goals. Project participants will have access to a peer support service to assist them understand their individual home and living options and goals.

Self Advocacy Sydney are co-designing a housing roadmap with NDIS participants with intellectual disability using a peer support model. Peer Support Mentors will be employed to help participants understand their home and living support options. The project will use easy-to-understand accessible audio-visual resources to: build individual capacity guide participants to understand available options make informed home and living decisions The co-created resources will utilise online platforms such as YouTube to broadcast home and living options to a wider audience.

There are 2 upcoming planned outages over the weekend. Planned outages allow us to update and improve our systems.

We are pleased to announce that the NDIS has created a new online tip-off form to streamline the reporting of suspected fraud and non-compliance. You can find it on our report suspicious behaviour page.

The NDIA and NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is writing jointly to all Plan Managers and Support Coordinators who support participants to remind them of their obligations to meet record keeping responsibilities and conflict-of-interest obligations, not engage in practices which facilitate the misuse of NDIS funds and comply with all Commonwealth, State and Territory laws, including tax obligations.