Organization : National Disability Insurance Agency
Facility : Information Publication Scheme IPS
Country : Australia
Website : https://www.ndis.gov.au/
NDIS IPS
The Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) establishes the Information Publication Scheme (IPS).
Related : National Disability Insurance Scheme Australia : www.statusin.org/24491.html
The IPS is a government-wide scheme that aims to promote and achieve a pro-disclosure culture across government. It sits alongside agencies’ other obligations under the FOI Act including Part III (Access to documents) of the FOI Act.
The IPS is intended to form the basis for a more open and transparent culture across government, with agencies encouraged to take a proactive approach to publishing the information they hold, and to consider publishing information over and above what they are obliged to publish.
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is required to publish a range of information on its website as part of the IPS. This includes information on the NDIA’s structure, functions, appointments, annual reports, consultation arrangements, and contact details of the NDIA’s freedom of information (FOI) officer(s).
Information routinely released through FOI requests and routinely provided to Parliament must also be published online. Together, this information forms part of the NDIA’s ‘IPS entry’ and is set out below under the heading ‘Information required to be published under the IPS’.
Who Regulates the IPS?
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is responsible for overseeing the IPS for all Australian Government agencies that are subject to the FOI Act. To find out more about the IPS see OAIC’s FOI fact sheet 4: The information publication scheme for Australian Government agencies.
The NDIA’s IPS Entry
The NDIA is committed to taking a proactive approach to publishing information. Our IPS Agency Plan outlines our approach to the IPS and what we will include in our IPS entry.
The information we will publish in our IPS entry is set out under headings in the ‘Required information under the IPS’ section below. Under each heading are links to the information or documents. If you have any difficulty accessing any information please contact us.
Information on requesting access to other information the NDIA holds, which is not published through the IPS or elsewhere on our website, can also be found on the Access our information page. Information that we have released under FOI requests is available on our FOI disclosure log.
Information required to be published under the IPS :
The NDIA is required under section 8(2) of the FOI Act to publish certain categories of specified information. The publication of this information is set out below.
IPS Agency Plan
The NDIA is required under section 8(2)(a) of the FOI Act to publish the NDIA’s IPS Agency Plan.
The NDIA’s IPS Agency Plan sets out what information we will publish under the IPS, to whom we will make the information available, and what additional steps we will take to promote pro-disclosure and information sharing beyond our minimum IPS obligations.