Regulation + safeguards
Regulation + safeguards
What the NDIS Commission requires, enforces and publishes: the registers, the Practice Standards, the actions, in the regulator's own words.
The NDIS regulator did not achieve its restrictive practices measure in 2025-26. Among people with disability, carers and advocates, 57% trust it
The Commission’s own scorecard: two of seven measures achieved, 3,593 participants under unauthorised restrictive practices for more than 90 days, plan quality down, and 5% targets set for 2026-27.
5 November 2026
The NDIS Minister counts 14,500 SIL providers registered or on their way. The release does not say how many are which
Unregistered SIL has been an offence since 1 October. The penalties under section 73B, why 14,500 equals more than half the whole registered market at 30 June, and what the Commission’s register shows so far.
28 October 2026
A third of the providers in January’s NDIS audit sweep lost their registration. The register took more than a month to show it
How the January mid-term audit notices ended, the 242 revocations dated 28 July that reached the register late, and what three downloads of the register show that one cannot.
11 October 2026
NDIS Commissioner launches an inquiry into seclusion and invites participants and families to contribute. Findings are expected in February 2027
How to contribute (by email, no closing date published), what counts as seclusion in law, the inquiry’s five issues, the Commission’s own April to June 2026 counts by state, and where each government stands on stopping the seclusion of children.
9 October 2026
Inappropriate inducements are named in the NDIS Commission’s 2026-27 priorities. The NDIS Act’s prohibition on inducements commences on 20 November
The regulator’s three priorities for the year, what changed from 2025-26, what section 73VA prohibits and its exceptions, the Northern Territory check-in pilot, and what a targeted campaign looks like when it arrives.
9 October 2026
The NDIS Commission’s new portal opens on 12 October, and one of its three preparation steps closed on 1 October
Obligations do not change, the system does. Draft behaviour support plans are deleted that day and cannot be recovered, roles do not carry across, and from 12 October a worker deactivated in one portal stays active in the other.
2 October 2026
The five things the NDIS Commission can do to a provider, defined by the Commission
Banning order, compliance notice, enforceable undertaking, suspension or revocation, infringement notice: each in the regulator’s own words, with where it is published and why the infringement list is the one a provider check misses.
2 October 2026
The NDIS Practice Standards: which ones apply to you, and what an auditor actually checks
Read from the instrument rather than a summary of it. A table in the rules maps 39 classes of support to a module and an assessment method, and for 23 of those rows the whole audited standard is four sentences.
23 August 2026
Which NDIS providers must be registered, and which can choose not to be
Compulsory for six kinds of support, optional for the rest, and where it is optional the choice belongs to how the participant’s funding is managed rather than to the provider.
23 August 2026
Which NDIS sanctions still bite, and which have quietly expired
3,708 actions on the register and 1,558 of them lapsed. Counted by sanction type, the instruments behave nothing alike: revocations and refusals never expire, every suspension ever recorded has, and 677 of 811 banning orders still stand.
30 July 2026
Two in five NDIS banning orders never expire, and most are against people rather than companies
All 789 banning orders parsed: 316 with no end date, a median term of three years for the rest, a twenty-year maximum, and 570 without an ABN attached.
28 July 2026
3,671 enforcement actions, three sharp spikes. How the NDIS Commission actually polices providers
We downloaded the full register export. The three biggest months in its history are audit-deadline sweeps run through the whole provider book at once, and if you hold registration, your dates are in the machine.
19 July 2026
From compliance notice to a $1.1 million Federal Court penalty: the Oak Tasmania case, end to end on the public record
Six admitted contraventions of the Practice Standards and Code of Conduct, 474 of the Reportable Incidents Rules, and a register trail that starts in 2020: the enforcement ladder shown in one case.
19 July 2026