Deadline: 11-Jan-22
The Australian Government is inviting applications via a closed non-competitive process to deliver services for the NDIS Appeals program to provide assistance to NDIS Appeals service providers to support clients seeking a review of their NDIS outcomes, and others affected by reviewable decisions of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA).
NDIS service providers will also support clients to navigate external merits review processes in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
The program supports access to:
- a skilled disability advocate who acts as a support person
- funding for legal services, where there is a wider community that would substantially benefit from legal representation.
Funding Information
This grant opportunity will provide funding to successful applicants for the continued operations of the NDIS Appeals Program with a total of $30.425 million GST exclusive over 3 financial years from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025.
Outcomes
The outcome of the NDIS Appeals Program is to provide access to disability advocacy, or where required legal assistance providers, to support persons in every state and territory with NDIS Appeals(s) advocacy by:
- explaining and educating the review process
- detailing and coordinating activities involved in appealing to the AAT
- supporting the development all relevant documents in preparation for the AAT’s review
- providing legal and administrative advice/ skills to empower and enable applicants to better represent themselves
- attend AAT conferences and hearings to help the applicant present the case to the AAT for review.
Eligibility Criteria
- This grant opportunity is a closed non-competitive grant selection process. The department considers this is an appropriate type of selection process as NDIS Appeals Program clients express a preference for accessing support from providers with a known reputation for positively supporting clients through the NDIS Appeals process.
- An invitation has been extended to specific NDIS Appeals Program providers that have developed a good rapport with clients and reputation to have specialist knowledge, experience and community connections that takes considerable resources, knowledge and time to develop.
- The eligible organisations are invited to apply for this grant opportunity as they have been assessed to have:
- capability to deliver the grant activities
- existing infrastructure and relationships with clients to support the grant activities’ objectives and desired outcomes
- knowledge of and capability to deliver the program’s objectives and outcomes with previous experience with disability advocacy.
- The eligible organisations have established operations and strong networks in place to deliver the NDIS Appeals Program which will be leveraged to deliver optimal outcomes under this grant opportunity. The eligible organisations have established administrative and governance arrangements, with the required infrastructure to deliver the program effectively and efficiently.
For more information, visit https://www.communitygrants.gov.au/grants/2021-5708
