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NDIS Priciples

NDIS Priciples

Reasonable & Necessary (R&N)

'Reasonable and necessary' is a measure of whether a participant’s desired support can be more appropriately funded by the NDIS or another mainstream service. In order to be considered reasonable and necessary, a support must:

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  • Be related to the participant's disability.

  • Not include day-to-day living costs that are not related to a participant's disability support needs.

  • Represent value for money

  • Be likely to be effective and beneficial to the participant, &

  • Takes into account informal supports given to participants by families, carers, networks, & the community.

Choice & Control

Choice and control is about people with disability, their families and carers having control over the course of their lives. This includes the flexibility to make decisions about the disability services and supports they use. Under the NDIS this means decisions around things like:  

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  • The type of supports and services one uses

  • Who provides the supports & services

  • How are the supports designed & provided

  • How resources are able to be used

  • How one's funding is to be managed

Capacity Building

Capacity building is a support that enables a participant to build their independence and skills. Participant budgets are allocated at a support category level and must be used to achieve the goals set out in the plan. Capacity building supports include:

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  • Support Coordination

  • Plan Management

  • Improved living Arrangements

  • Increased social and community participation

  • Finding and keeping a job

  • Improved relationships

  • Improved health and wellbeing

  • Early Intervention

  • Improved daily living skills

Independent Living

The NDIS funds supports to assist people live independently in the community or move back into their own home. To live independently the NDIS will assist participates including:

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  • Home modifications to the participant's own home to make a participant's home accessible

  • Home modifications to access social housing on a case-by-case manner

  • Support with personal care (such as assistance with showering, dressing or assistance preparing meals and cleaning)

  • Help around the home where the participant is unable to undertake these tasks due to the disability (such as assistance with cleaning and laundry)

  • Supports that build people's capacity to live independently in their community

Self-Direction

Self-Direction is the idea that participants have as much control as possible in deciding what supports they need, how and when these supports will be delivered and who provides them. Key principles of self-direction include:

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  • Independent living

  • Individual funding

  • Self-determination

  • Accessibility

  • Flexibility

  • Accountability

  • Capacity

 

Self-direction is about ensuring that people can choose how they want to live, how to make decisions over their own life, improving mechanisms of access and being accountable for the decisions we make

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.

Permanent Impairment

A permanent impairment is an impairment for which there is no known, available, appropriate evidence based treatment that may remedy the impairment. An impairment for which the impact on function fluctuates may vary in intensity (e.gg episodic) but may still be considered permanent despite the variation. Permanence of impairment may demonstrate ongoing treatment and review but is not likely to remedy the impairment.

 

An impairment is the loss of, or damage to, functioning resulting from the condition or diagnosis of symptoms. An impairment results in the reduction or loss of an ability to perform an activity. This may be related to:

  • Communication

  • Social Interaction

  • Mobility

  • Learning

  • Self-care

  • Self-Management

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