The National Disability Insurance Scheme
(The NDIS)
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a federal governmental initiative that provides individualised support packages for people with a permanent and significant disability. The NDIS is a government scheme that aims to support people with a disability to build their skills and access the supports they require.
The Goals of the NDIS
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Be included in the community
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Increased independence
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Be supported to participate socially& economically
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Provide individualised support
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Fully participate in community life
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Participate in learning & education
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Participate in the workforce
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Live Independently
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Improve health and wellbeing
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Be enabled to fulfil their potential
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Connect with disability and mainstream supports in the community
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Protection from Harm
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Exercise choice and control over their lives
Aspects of the NDIS...
The National Disability Insurance Agency
(NDIA)
Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)
Technical Advisory Team
(TAT)
The National Disability Insurance Agency
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is an independent statutory agency set up to implement the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The National Disability Insurance Agency has many offices across Australia with a number of different departments. The NDIA includes:
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NDIS Call Centre - 1800 800 110
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NDIA Offices (Search By Postcode)
NDIS
Quality & Safeguards Commission
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is an independent agency established to improve the quality and safety of NDIS supports and services.
They regulate NDIS providers, provide national consistency, promote safety and quality services, resolve problems & identify areas for improvement
The Administrative Advisory Tribunal (AAT)
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal provides independent merits review of a wide range of administrative decisions made by the Australian Government.
The Technical Advisory Team
(TAT)
The Technical Advisory Team (TAT) is a national team that is a part of the NDIA with the primary focus of driving consistency in the application of the NDIS reasonable and necessary decision making framework, tools and operational guidelines. The National Technical Advisory Team functions as one team with the central advisors sharing their expertise across the regional network, delegates and external planning partners..
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Subject Matter Experts (SME): advisors who have expertise in speicalist areas
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Operational Guidelines Team: a team responsible for updating the NDIS Operational Guidelines
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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal: TAT provides guidance and instruction for the legal team on cases before the Administative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)
The National Access Team
The National Access Team makes decisions about whether people meet the NDIS ‘access requirements’ This includes:
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Access Request Forms: processing access request forms and
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Eligibility: determining whether a participant has adequate evidence of their disability to be eligible for the scheme.
Local Area Coordination
Local Area Coordinators are people employed by the NDIA that link NDIS participants to the services they require, including funding supports. Local Area Coordinators conduct first plan, implementations, reviews and scheduled review meetings as well as build plans for people on the NDIS.
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First Plans
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Scheduled Reviews
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Preplanning
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Planning
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Plan Builds
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Monitoring
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Interface between participants, providers and the NDIA
Information Linkages &Capacity Building
The Information, Linkages & Capacity Building Project (ILC) is a program to organise to carry out activities in the community as part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NIS). Through a grants process, ILC pprovides information, linkages and referrals to connect people with disability, their families and carers, with broader systems of support.
Early Intervention
Early Intervention supports assist a participant undertake activities to reduce the participant's future need for support. Early intervention support is available to both children and adults to alleviate the impact of a person's impairment upon their functional capacity by providing support at the earliest possible stage. Early intervention aims to adjust, adopt and build capacity for community resettlement and participation in the community.