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The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is undergoing significant regulatory reforms, known as NDIS reforms, aimed at improving its efficiency, safeguarding participants, and enhancing the overall experience for people with disabilities, their families, and providers.

Assessing NDIS key personnel suitability is essential for compliance. Learn key considerations, best practices, and strategies to maintain service quality.

Discover key insights on Risk Assessed Roles in NDIS, including worker screening, compliance, and best practices to ensure participant safety and provider integrity.

Discover key strategies to build a successful NDIS business. Learn how to attract clients, improve services, and grow sustainably in a competitive market.

For anyone in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) sector, a critical question often arises: How to find NDIS clients? This blog aims to provide practical strategies and tips to help NDIS providers connect with potential clients.

Understand the key compliance guidelines for NDIS providers to stay on track, avoid risks, and build a trustworthy business.

The NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators outline the expectations and requirements for registered providers to deliver services and supports to participants.

Need help with SIL registration? We've put together a practical guide that takes the guesswork out of the process. Perfect for providers and coordinators who want clear, straightforward answers.

If you’re passionate about supporting people with disabilities and are considering becoming an NDIS registered provider, you’re taking an important step toward making a meaningful difference in the lives of many.

New to the NDIS? This step-by-step guide helps providers support participants through registration, plan management & self-management. Read now!

Early intervention is a cornerstone of the NDIS, offering essential supports for participants with developmental delays. For NDIS providers, delivering effective early intervention services requires a strong understanding of developmental needs, the ability to work collaboratively, and a focus on empowering both participants and their families.

NDIS registration changes explained! Find out what’s happening, who’s affected & how to stay ahead of the transition. Read now for key updates.

Working to enrich the lives of people with a disability can be an extremely rewarding career. One of the most popular cleaning jobs is supporting people with disability to assist them with their household tasks at home.

Effective incident management is a critical part of the NDIS Commission’s safeguarding framework to minimise the risk of harm to people with disability, protect their right to be safe and empower them with choice and control over their lives, within the context of supports and services they receive.

Prepare for any emergency with our essential Participant Emergency Preparation Plan. Ensure safety and readiness in all situations. Read the article now!

The NDIS provides essential services and supports for Australians living with disabilities. High-intensity daily personal activities provides support to participants with complex needs.

Discover key insights into the NDIS Code of Conduct for service providers, ensuring compliance and quality support. Read the article for an essential guidance.

In this blog, we'll examine whether an NDIS business is a profitable venture, focusing on key factors that influence its financial performance.

Navigating the NDIS verification process can be challenging. With the right approach and tools, however, it doesn’t have to be.

Navigating the journey to becoming an NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) certified provider can be intricate. This certification enhances the quality of your services and cements your commitment to supporting individuals with disabilities.

In today’s digital age, an online community for NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme) plays a vital role in connecting, supporting and empowering participants, providers, and caregivers.

A well-crafted and comprehensive business plan not only guides your business strategy but also is often necessary for securing funding and provider registration.

Understanding the nuances and requirements of an NDIS mid term audit is vital for maintaining compliance and enhancing service quality.

This expansive guide is designed to unravel the complexities of SDA provider registration, offering detailed insights and practical advice for those aspiring to join this vital sector.

Have you been thinking about how to start an NDIS business? In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of becoming a registered NDIS provider, so you can run your own NDIS business and provide quality services to NDIS participants.

As children around the world send off their letters to Santa for toys and Christmas wishes, we can’t help but think about all the NDIS Providers out there with looming audits and piles of paperwork mounting.

Chronic disease and sudden accidents do not discriminate by age. Still, the NDIS is not available to those who experience disability after the age of 65 years.

This is a Residential Aged Care transition guide to the NDIS written by professional NDIS consultants at Provider+. This guide should be used as a resource tool along with NDIS resources linked to this article.

There is more than one way to find NDIS clients for your NDIS Provider business.

When a new NDIS review is announced, you can almost hear the heads of providers and participants around Australia turning.

If you’ve been keeping up with recent funding figures released by the NDIS, you may be surprised to hear not all participants are spending their funding budget

The NDIS is complicated and overwhelming at the best of times. Trying to read and decipher an NDIS quarterly or annual report is enough to send any provider over the edge.

The new NDIS module 2 requirements outline processes for providers who use restrictive practices and write behaviour support plans.

At Provider+, we realise that understanding and meeting the NDIS certification requirements can be confusing. Our experienced consultants will clearly explain how to get an NDIS certification in Melbourne by walking you through the whole process.

If you wish to work as a disability support worker, you must meet the NDIS requirements.

Working to enrich the lives of people with a disability can be an extremely rewarding career. One of the most popular jobs supporting people with disability is helping them clean their dwellings and spaces.

Digging into the code of conduct for Providers

The NDIS has decided to create a new screening process for those working with participants

Labor’s policy is all about the need to restore trust between all of the stakeholders by getting the NDIS back to its original objectives, reducing the bureaucracy, taking the anxiety about plan cuts out of the scheme, and bringing back the codesign.

As the National Disability Insurance Scheme continues to grow at a faster rate than expected, the forecast costs are now more than $40 billion over what was anticipated for the next three years.

Now that we have a fresh new year ahead, it's a good time reflect on your NDIS provider business and consider how you can start off on the right foot.

To help ensure quality care is available for our aging citizens, the Australian Government has created My Aged Care.

A mid-term audit is the next important step in the audit cycle for many NDIS providers.

Carers are some of the most important people in our community. The work that they do on a daily basis provides an invaluable service to ensure quality of life for everyone.

Dementia is most commonly associated with advancing age. The incidence of dementia increases exponentially between the ages of 65 and 90 years and doubles approximately every 5 years.

When you're an NDIS provider there are some other crucial reasons why you need to complete an internal audit. We have given you the top five reasons

Training, for you and your staff, can be one of the most important things you can do to keep your NDIS business healthy.

No matter what type of business you have, effectively marketing your product and services is crucial to your success.

Navigating the NDIS Price Guide can be tricky, but it's important to make sure that you get it right.

There are plenty of opportunities for new providers to join the sector. However, you need to conform to certain requirements and have to follow specific guidelines.

As Australia’s population ages, there is a growing need for aged care workers. That, according to the Australian government, means the number of professional aged care workers is likely to double over the next five years.

As we progress through 2021, the NDIA have evaluated some changes for a new 'COVID normal'.

The relationship between an NDIS participant and their care provider is an important one. Finding the right fit is the first step in creating a healthy, successful ongoing partnership.

Whether you're an NDIS or a My Aged Care provider, onboarding new staff to your business is essential to their ongoing performance.

As an NDIS or My Aged Care provider, looking after your tax arrangements can be a daunting prospect.

From 1 February, 2021, the NDIS Workers Screening Check (WSC) was introduced as part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality & Safeguard Framework. This is a national approach to how workers are screened for risk-assessed roles.

As preparations for the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out begin across Australia, the federal government is urgently requesting information from providers of group disability accommodation.

From February 1, 2021, the NDIS Workers Screening Check has been introduced as part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Quality & Safeguard Framework.

If you're a provider who is registered to deliver assistance with daily personal activities to a participant who lives alone, you may have heard that there are some changes coming into effect this week.

Today marks the International Day of People with a Disability, a day to increase awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with disability.

From December 1, 2020, the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission) has begun managing the quality and safeguards of NDIS supports and services in Western Australia.

Once you've done the hard work of recruiting and onboarding your superstar staff members, the next step is to retain them within your business.

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) allows participants who have permanent and significant disability to receive funding that enables them to live as full a life as possible. This funding is used to pay providers who deliver the necessary services and supports.

The NDIS is a wide-ranging, national scheme and the rules associated with it can be complex.

Previous systems of supporting people with disabilities differed depending on the state or territory where those receiving the support lived.

When you’re growing an NDIS business, training may not always be seen as a top priority, but perhaps it should be.

For any business to succeed, it’s crucial to market your products and services effectively to find new participants.

Every NDIS participant’s needs are unique and so their service requirements are also different and a specific plan has to be devised.

‍Three Months to Thrive is an accelerator program geared specifically towards NDIS Providers and their unique needs.

We are pleased to say that the NDIS Commission has acted upon the feedback of providers and reassessed the process for small scale providers offering low risk services.

Monitoring and compliance is important to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissions work as a regulator.

The NDIS quality and safeguard requirements apply to any organisation or person delivering services under the NDIS and meeting these requirements is a prerequisite condition of NDIS registration.

When organisations are complying with the requirements and reflecting best practice, then they can have greater confidence that their systems are enhancing positive outcomes for people with disabilities and organisational performance.

The new NDIS Worker Screening Checks will be implemented shortly to set a single national standard for all workers by replacing variable arrangements already operating in different states and territories.

The updated NDIS Price Guide 2019-20 is now a single National price guide meant to be used alongside the NDIS Support Catalogue 2019-20.

Here you will find a quick overview of how new compliance pathway will look like.

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is making important changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in 2019 to help people with disability in getting the support they need to achieve their goals. This is called NDIS pathway reform, or the Pathways Program.

The quality & safeguards commission of the NDIS with a specific set of education and regulatory powers has already started in New South Wales (NSW) & South Australia (SA)

This Module is online and interactive, specifically designed to assist the people working in the sector to support people with disability

The NDIS will create a more competitive market based on the choices of people with disability, and service providers will be chosen by NDIS participants on the same basis as other consumer choices are made.

There are certain rules set out by NDIS (Quality and Safeguards Commission), which directly affect providers. It is merely important to go through these once you have made up your mind to go for it.

From 1 July 2019, the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission will start managing quality and safeguards in Queensland.

An NDIS audit cycle is the repeated process in which NDIS-approved auditors review your organisation's compliance with the Commissioner's Practice Standards.

As of now, whoever has applied for a disability worker screening check are all set to have portable screening credentials in an online centralised clearance database.

Version control is a system of managing different versions of a document through a process of file naming and revision record keeping.

The latest changes to the NDIS Price Guide came into effect on 1 February 2019. There is now a three-tier price level for providers delivering supports for self-care activities and community, social and recreational access as opposed to the previous two levels.

The Stage 1 and Stage 2 Audits form part of the assessments against the NDIS Practice Standards that NDIS providers have to undertake when they renew or register under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

The NDIS registration process consists of a Stage 1 and Stage 2 Audit in which NDIS providers are to present evidence of outcomes against the relevant modules of the NDIS Practice Standards.

The Stage 1 and Stage 2 Audits form part of the assessments against the NDIS Practice Standards that NDIS providers have to undertake when they renew or register under the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

For those thinking of registering to become an NDIS provider or simply curious about the benchmark for assessment, here's a quick overview of the NDIS Practice Standards and what to expect.

The NDIS Commissioner's core supports are the standard requirements set out by the NDIS Commission in order for a provider to be qualified for NDIS registration.

As a business leader, there is nothing more important than hiring the right people for the right job and at the right time.

Whether you are an established NDIS provider looking to expand your customer base; or a new provider, fresh in the marketplace and looking to set roots, you need to respect the concept of marketing.

In this article, we look at various statistics that prospective investors in Australia's disability market should consider.

The NDIS Practice Standards for providers are a benchmark used for and provision of high quality and safe supports as well as assessment of performance in service delivery to NDIS participants.

Government-sponsored projections put the SDA funding initiative market to grow by over AUD $5 billion in the next four years.

There is a growing need for suitable housing for the thousands of Australians living with disabilities.

The Basics of Specialist Disability Accommodation

The World Health Organisation's definition for assistive technology is, "any device or system that allows individuals to perform tasks they would otherwise be unable to do or increases the ease and safety with which tasks can be performed".