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News
New Workshop: What should I pay my NDIS support workers?
| event | self management | Self Manager Hub | Managing supports | Service agreements | Contracts and legal | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Rules for hiring | Events | News | Know your rights
| Event
| event | self management | Self Manager Hub | Managing supports | Service agreements | Contracts and legal | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Rules for hiring | Events | News | Know your rights
| Event
One of the most common questions we hear in the Self Manager Hub community is: What should I pay my support workers? It can feel tricky working this out on your own — the award, NDIS price limits, and different employment arrangements can all be confusing. We will share experiences, tips, and resources so no one has to figure it out alone.
Self Manager Hub Workshop – Can the NDIS take self or plan management away? Recording
| NDIS rules | plan management | self-management
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News | Know your rights
| Video
| NDIS rules | plan management | self-management
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News | Know your rights
| Video
The workshop focuses on rights and responsibilities for NDIS participants who self-manage or are plan managed.
Self Manager Hub Workshop – Creating Your Own NDIS Support Service Recording
| Supported decision making | Hiring a contractor | Choice and control
| Build your team | News
| Video
| Supported decision making | Hiring a contractor | Choice and control
| Build your team | News
| Video
The workshop focuses on how people can set up their own NDIS support service. The video explains how a ‘Service for One’ works within the NDIS, and how you can one up to have more choice and control over your support.
Events
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
| Event
| 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...
The Future is Self-Direction: What might the new NDIS Registration category mean for you? Recording
| NDIS quality safeguard commission | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Peer network | Events | News | Know your rights
| Event
| NDIS quality safeguard commission | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Peer network | Events | News | Know your rights
| Event
This is a free workshop discussing the NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce recommended new registration category called “Self-Directed Supports”. This category is designed for NDIS participants and nominees who directly manage their own supports.
Resources
New NDIS Rule to Determine How Your Plan Is Managed
| Funds Management | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
| Video
| Funds Management | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
| Video
The government is introducing a new rule on how NDIS funds are managed. This will set out how decisions are made by the NDIA around when you can and can’t self manage or use a plan manager, and when you will have to be agency managed. Sara Gingold from Team DSC talks us through what it all means.
Submission on Registration of NDIS Participants Who Self-Direct our Supports
| NDIS | registration | NDIS review | News | NDIS quality safeguard commission
| Free resource | Get creative | News | Know your rights
| Article
| NDIS | registration | NDIS review | News | NDIS quality safeguard commission
| Free resource | Get creative | News | Know your rights
| Article
The Self Manager Hub board has prepared a Submission on Registration of NDIS Participants Who Self-Direct our Supports to the Department of Social Services. Submissions are open until February 7, 2025. It is important that you let the government know what's important...
NDIS Support List Interpreter
| What can I buy?
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | What can I buy? | News | Getting Started
| Easy english | Webpage | Tools
| What can I buy?
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | What can I buy? | News | Getting Started
| Easy english | Webpage | Tools
Hireup has created a helpful tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence, designed to provide guidance on the supports you can use your funding for under the new rules introduced in October 2024. This tool allows you to ask a question and then emails a response to...