David Simmonds is the Victorian Disability Worker Commissioner. David commenced as Commissioner on 19 October 2026 and is the regulator of disability workers in Victoria. The Victorian Disability Worker Commissioner provides independent oversight and safeguards to ensure Victorians can seek advice and make complaints about the conduct of disability workers. The Commissioner has the power to ban unregistered disability workers for unsafe conduct. The Commissioner works with the Disability Worker Registration Board of Victoria to register disability workers, building the quality of safe disability services across the state. David is passionate about the important role of the Commission and Board in providing safeguards and quality disability services for Victorian people with disability. He is an experienced accessibility and inclusion leader with over a decade of focused work in disability policy, transport accessibility reform, and advocacy for people with disability and low vision – both across government and not-for-profit settings. He also has lived experience of disability. David holds a Master of Business Administration from Federation University Australia and was previously Director of Accessibility and Inclusion at the Department of Transport and Planning. | Image
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