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Workshop Recording: Be prepared for your NDIS claim & payment reviews | self-management | NDIS | Recordkeeping | Budgets
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News | Keep your records
| Video
| self-management | NDIS | Recordkeeping | Budgets
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News | Keep your records
| Video
Are you self-managing your NDIS plan?
This online workshop is essential for you. We’ll walk you through your rights and responsibilities around record keeping, how to make good claims and how to prepare for a payment review with confidence.
Report: NDIS Participants and Families who use Direct Employment | Choice and control | report | News | NDIS
| Free resource | Build your team | News
| Article
| Choice and control | report | News | NDIS
| Free resource | Build your team | News
| Article
This report shares the experiences of 73 NDIS participants and families who directly employ their support workers, often through arrangements known as Services for One.
New Workshop: Understanding the New Short Term Respite Guidelines | short term respite | self management | STA | Self Manager Hub | News | NDIS | Supports
| What can I buy? | Events | News | Set goals and make plans
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| short term respite | self management | STA | Self Manager Hub | News | NDIS | Supports
| What can I buy? | Events | News | Set goals and make plans
| Event
Join us for a free online workshop with the NDIA to help you understand the new Short Term Respite Guidelines – what’s changed, what it means for participants, and how this funding can be used.
Events
Create Your Own NDIS Support Service: How People with Disability and Our Families Are Taking Control of Our Supports and of Our Lives | Self Manager Hub | Peer support | What can I buy?
| Build your team | Events | Know your rights
| Event
| Self Manager Hub | Peer support | What can I buy?
| Build your team | Events | Know your rights
| Event
Join us for a practical workshop exploring how people with disability and our families are creating their own services, designed by us, for us. Hear from experts with lived experience who’ve built innovative, person-centred supports that deliver real outcomes.
Self Manager Hub Workshop – Fixing the NDIS Support Lists | What can I buy?
| What can I buy? | Events | News | Know your rights
| Event
| What can I buy?
| What can I buy? | Events | News | Know your rights
| Event
This peer-led workshop is for NDIS participants who want to understand and influence the government’s review of the NDIS support lists – rules that currently decide what people can and can’t purchase with their NDIS funding. Now is the time to speak up and push for changes that reflect what really matters to people with disability.
Creating Good Beginnings with Support Workers – Belonging Matters | Future planning | Blue sky dreaming
| Build your team | Events
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| Future planning | Blue sky dreaming
| Build your team | Events
| Event
What is this workshop about? Increasingly, people with a disability and their families are self-managing or directing their support workers to enable a full, meaningful and inclusive life. This often involves not only establishing and maintaining positive...
Resources
Have Your Say | hiring | Contracts and legal | Hiring a contractor
| Free resource | News | Know your rights
| Survey | Text only | News | Form
| hiring | Contracts and legal | Hiring a contractor
| Free resource | News | Know your rights
| Survey | Text only | News | Form
The Department of Social Services (DSS) wants to hear from people with disability, families, and supporters.
Self Manager Hub Workshop – Understanding the NDIS Support Lists: What Can I Buy in 2025? Recording | What can I buy?
| Free resource | What can I buy? | News | Know your rights
| Video
| What can I buy?
| Free resource | What can I buy? | News | Know your rights
| Video
In this recorded workshop, we explained the changes clearly. We discussed how the rules are being applied, what choices participants still have, and how to make informed decisions when purchasing supports.
Video: What Can You use your funding on in 2025 with Chris Coombes | Funds Management | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
| Video
| Funds Management | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
| Video
In this engaging conversation, Jarrod Sandell-Hay sits down with Chris Coombes from Team DSC to unpack Section 10 — how it came about, what it was meant to achieve, and what we’re seeing on the ground nearly nine months later.
