- What is the purpose of this operational guideline?
- What is the relevant legislation?
- Overview
- Principles relating to plans
- General matters relating to planning
- What is the planning process?
- What is a plan?
- When must the NDIA prepare a participant's plan?
- What must be included in a participant's plan?
- When is a participant's plan in effect?
- When does a participant's plan cease to be in effect?
- Can a participant's plan be varied?
- Can a participant's plan be suspended?
- What is the effect of suspending a participant's plan?
- Timeframes for preparing a participant's plan
- The participant's statement of goals and aspirations
- What is the importance of the participant's statement of goals and aspirations?
- Does a participant's statement of goals and aspirations need to be in writing?
- Who prepares the participant's statement of goals and aspirations?
- Supporting participants to prepare their statement of goals and aspirations
- The goals, objectives and aspirations of the participant
- The environmental and personal context of the participant
- Performing a support needs assessment
- The statement of participant supports
- Deciding to include supports in a participant's plan
- What are the general criteria for supports?
- Which supports will not be funded or provided under the NDIS?
- Will the support assist a participant to pursue their goals, objectives and aspirations?
- Will the support assist the participant to undertake activities so as to facilitate their social and economic participation?
- Does the support represent value for money?
- Is the support effective and beneficial having regard to current good practice?
- Does the funding of the support take into account what is reasonable to expect others to provide?
- Is the support most appropriately funded or provided through the NDIS?
- Other considerations applicable to including supports in a participant's plan
- What assistance is available where a support is not most appropriately funded by NDIS?
- Describing supports in a participant's plan
- Setting the plan review date
- Managing the funding for supports under a participant's plan (the plan management system)
- Approving the statement of participant supports
- Timeframe for approving statement of participant supports
- What must the NDIA consider when approving the statement of participant supports?
- Copy of plan to be provided to participant
- Participant may request a review of the decision to approve the statement of participant supports
- Requirement to notify of change of circumstances
- NDIA to comply with statement of participant supports
- Payment of NDIS amounts
- Obligations in relation to NDIS amounts
- Protection of NDIS amounts
- Reviewing and changing a participant's plan
- Participant changes their statement of goals and aspirations
- Participant requests a review of their plan (request for an unscheduled plan review)
- Participant's plan reviewed at the initiative of the NDIA (unscheduled plan review)
- Participant's plan reviewed as part of the planning cycle
- Requesting further information or reports for the purposes of reviewing a participant's plan
- What happens when a participant's plan is reviewed?
- What is the difference between a plan review and an internal review?
- Effect of temporary absence from Australia on plans
Appendix 1 - Table of guidance on whether a support is most appropriately funded by the NDIS