A panel is a group of people that talk about important ideas.

We had 3 panels to help us make decisions.

All the panels include people with disability.

We explain their work in the following sections.

The Indicators Panel helped create the first disability flags.

Disability flags are ways of measuring disability in the Data Asset.

For example, how many people with disability use services – like health services.

The Indicators panel gave us advice about:

• how to explain the disability flags
• our plan to improve the disability flags.

The Scoping Panel wrote a report for the Council.

The report had ideas about:

bullet other panels we could set up in the future

bullet important ideas those panels could work on.end of list

The report also had ideas about what data we still need for the Data Asset.

You can read the report on our website.

There is also an Easy Read version.

www.ndda.gov.au/how-we-work/advisory-panels/scoping-panel-report

We decided to make 2 new panels in the future.

They will focus on:

bullet children and young people with disability

bullet jobs for people with disability.end of list

The Ethical Oversight Panel checks that research projects:

• will work well for people with disability
• should not harm people with disability.

The Ethical Oversight Panel wrote a guide about inclusive research.

When something is inclusive, everyone:

• can take part
• feels like they belong.

We want researchers to use the guide to make research more inclusive.

You can read the guide on our website.

There is also an Easy Read version.

www.ndda.gov.au/research-projects/
inclusive-research