NDIS Law: Addressing Privacy Compliance, Governance, and Directors' and Officers' Duties
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Description
Attend and earn 1.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
*This is an interactive recording, which allows you to claim all your annual CPD points
Chair: Andrea de Smidt, Senior Solicitor, NDIS Appeals at Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion
Privacy Compliance Issues
- Important privacy concepts that service providers need to know
- What is personal information, sensitive information and health information?
- Privacy compliance issues
- When collecting participants’ information: what can you collect, what you can’t collect, and obtaining participant’s consent
- Storing and accessing participant’s information: What must you provide access to and what are the related exceptions?
- Disclosing information: When information can & can’t be used and disclosed
Presented by Vanessa Baic, Special Counsel, K&L Gates
Governance Plus Directors and Officers Duties
- NDIS Registered Provider obligations and requirements: What Boards need to know?
- Disability Royal Commission recommendations regarding governance and co-design
- Suitability assessment for key personnel
- Common law duties
- Corporations Act
- Governance for ACNC registered charities
Presented by Alison Choy Flannigan, Partner, Hall & Wilcox; Honorary Fellowship with Australasian College of Health Service Management 2022, Best Lawyers 2024, Biotechnology Law, Health & Aged Care Law, Best Lawyers 2023, Retirement Villages & Senior Living Law, Leading Health & Aged Care Lawyer, Doyles Guide 2023
Presenters
Andrea de Smidt
Andrea de Smidt has worked for fifteen years as a lawyer supporting disadvantaged members of our community. Andrea’s experience includes coordinating the Homeless Persons Legal Clinic and Self Representation Service, both initiatives of LawRight, and working as a Senior Lawyer for Legal Aid Queensland representing clients in anti-discrimination complaints and National Disability Insurance Scheme appeals. Andrea now works within a team of advocates working for QAI’s NDIS Advocacy Practice.
Vanessa Baic
Vanessa Baic is a corporate and commercial lawyer whose practice focuses on the health, aged care/retirement living and therapeutic goods sectors. Ms. Baic advises clients on a range of issues affecting the above industries including compliance with regulatory requirements, contracting, risk management, privacy, structuring and mergers and acquisitions. Her clients include some of Australia's most well known companies in the health, aged care/retirement living and therapeutic goods sectors and comprise for-profit and not-for profit entities as well as government.
Alison Choy Flannigan
With over 25 years of corporate, commercial and regulatory experience, Alison has specialised in advising clients in the health, aged care, retirement living, disability, life sciences and community sectors. Alison co-leads the Health & Community Practice at National Law firm, Hall & Wilcox. Alison has been listed in The Best Lawyers in Australia (and the Australian Financial Review) since 2008 for Health & Aged Care and also Retirement Living and Biotechnology. She has been recognised in the Doyle's Guide to the Australian Legal Profession as a Leading Health and Aged Care Lawyer each and every year since 2017. Alison has been a finalist for the Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year in Health every year since 2016 and won this prestigious award in 2019, 2020 and 2021. She was a finalist in the Lawyers Weekly, Women in Law Awards, Partner of the Year - Big Law, 2019 and 2021.