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News
Self Manager Hub Workshop – What should I pay my support workers? Recording | contracts | wages | self-management | hiring | Worker screening
| Premium Content | Build your team | Rules for hiring | News
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| contracts | wages | self-management | hiring | Worker screening
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One of the most common questions we hear in the Self Manager Hub community is: What should I pay my support workers? In this workshop, we will share experiences, tips, and resources so no one has to figure it out alone.
How to Work Out Support Worker Pay Under the SCHADS Award | Contracts and legal | human resources | SCHADS | support workers | hiring
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| Contracts and legal | human resources | SCHADS | support workers | hiring
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This resource will help you to work out what to pay your support workers by walking you through the SCHADS Award.
Webinar – Understanding the SCHADS Award | human resources | support workers | hiring | Contracts and legal
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| human resources | support workers | hiring | Contracts and legal
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Join Employment Hero’s Head of HR Advisory and Principal Lawyer at EI Legal, Simon Obee, and HR Advisory Manager, Neath Sokhom, as they break down the SCHADS Award and what it means for employers in 2025 and beyond.
Events
Self Manager Hub Workshop – Fixing the NDIS Support Lists | What can I buy?
| What can I buy? | Events | News | Know your rights
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| What can I buy?
| What can I buy? | Events | News | Know your rights
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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
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| Future planning | Blue sky dreaming
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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
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| NDIS quality safeguard commission | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Peer network | Events | News | Know your rights
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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
Video: What Can You use your funding on in 2025 with Chris Coombes | Funds Management | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
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| Funds Management | News
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
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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.
New NDIS Rule to Determine How Your Plan Is Managed | News | Funds Management
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
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| News | Funds Management
| NDIS Fund Management | Free resource | News
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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 | registration | NDIS review | News | NDIS quality safeguard commission | NDIS
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| registration | NDIS review | News | NDIS quality safeguard commission | NDIS
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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...