NDIS - Economic Model Blowout: Sustained Risk Management Failures
Dear National Disability Insurance Agency,
Please provide a copy of the NDIS economic model/forecast for the past 4 years. That is, from 2018 to 2021. Just 4 documents.
Please provide a copy of the specific risk management plan for each economic plan/year (2018-2021). Not a broad, multi-department or enterprise risk management statement or similar, but the specific risk assessment, controls and management plan for each economic forecast, to monitor, assure and deliver on the promise. Again, just 4 documents.
It is assume that the name(s), title and qualifications of the originator of the economic model will be included.
Noting the billions of dollars of annual budget overrun (blowout), it is assumed the NDIA is addressing this system failure of risk management.
Please provide a copy of the risk management corrective action for each year the economic forecast has been wrong by more than $200million. Again, no more than 4 documents over the past 4 years.
A total of 12 documents have been requested. Noting the document/s significance and importance, they should be readily available and easy to locate.
Background:
The $26b NDIS blowout
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/the...
NDIS spending blows out by $40b, set to overtake defence
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/ndi...
The National Disability Insurance Scheme: a quick guide
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/...
How will risks to the financial sustainability of the NDIS be managed?
National Disability Insurance Scheme—Risk Management Rules 2013
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F...
(2) The risk management framework must provide a reasonable assurance that the Agency’s risks are managed prudently and soundly.
(3) The risk management framework is to deal with the systems, structures, processes and people within the Agency that identify, assess, mitigate and monitor all internal and external sources of risk that could have a material impact on the Agency’s operations, funding and financial sustainability.
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C...
16 Duty to establish and maintain systems relating to risk and control
Yours faithfully,
Josh
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You have requested access to the following documents:
“Please provide a copy of the NDIS economic model/forecast for the past 4
years. That is, from 2018 to 2021. Just 4 documents.
Please provide a copy of the specific risk management plan for each
economic plan/year (2018-2021). Not a broad, multi-department or
enterprise risk management statement or similar, but the specific risk
assessment, controls and management plan for each economic forecast, to
monitor, assure and deliver on the promise. Again, just 4 documents.
It is assume (sic) that the name(s), title and qualifications of the
originator of the economic model will be included.
Please provide a copy of the risk management corrective action for each
year the economic forecast has been wrong by more than $200million. Again,
no more than 4 documents over the past 4 years.”
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Josh left an annotation ()
"...t the NDIA is not in possession of documents matching the scope of your request. This is because we do not hold any documents, including specific risk assessments, risk documents on Scheme sustainability that would meet the scope of the request."