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News
Workshop Recording: Understanding the New Short Term Respite Guidelines | NDIS | Choice and control | Flexibility | STA | self-management | STR | Short-term respite
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News
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| NDIS | Choice and control | Flexibility | STA | self-management | STR | Short-term respite
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News
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This workshop with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) explains the new Short Term Respite Guidelines.
Workshop Recording: Be prepared for your NDIS claim & payment reviews | Recordkeeping | self-management | NDIS | Budgets
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News | Keep your records
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| Recordkeeping | self-management | NDIS | Budgets
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | News | Keep your records
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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 | report | News | NDIS | Choice and control
| Free resource | Build your team | News
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| report | News | NDIS | Choice and control
| Free resource | Build your team | News
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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.
Events
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
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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.
What Can I Buy Now? A Self Manager Hub recording – 5 October 2024 | News | What can I buy?
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| News | What can I buy?
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This is a free workshop on the new NDIS laws that may change how you can use your NDIS funding.
In this forum, we will cover the new definition of an NDIS support and how you can apply for a substitution.
Resources
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
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| What can I buy?
| Free resource | What can I buy? | News | Know your rights
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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
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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 | Funds Management | News
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| Funds Management | News
| 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.