Under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), services and supports provided to participants are structured across three main budget purposes: Core, Capital, and Capacity Building.

Core Supports

Core supports assist participants with daily activities and everyday disability-related needs:

• Assistance with Daily Life: Personal care (assistance with showering, dressing, and hygiene), night-time sleepover support, on-call overnight monitoring, and live-in carer assistance. It includes domestic help such as household chores, house cleaning, yard maintenance, linen services, and the preparation and delivery of meals.
• Shared and Independent Living Supports: Supported Independent Living (SIL) for shared or individual daily support, Short Term Accommodation and Assistance (STA/respite), Medium Term Accommodation (MTA), and Individualised Living Options (ILO).
• Transport: Funding or direct transport services to travel to community activities, appointments, schools, or workplaces, including specialised transport arrangements.
• Consumables: Daily-use disability items, including continence products and Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) items.
• Social and Community Participation: Individual or group assistance to take part in community, social, recreational, and civic activities, including centre-based activities and specialised supported employment in workplace settings.

Capital Supports

Capital supports fund specialized investments, modifications, and high-level physical solutions:

• Assistive Technology (AT): Equipment and devices designed to aid mobility, personal care, safety, and communication, including low-cost smart devices for therapy delivery and customised or wearable tech.
• Home and Vehicle Modifications: Structural changes, installations, fittings, and adaptations to a participant’s private home or vehicle to facilitate accessibility and safety.
• Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA): Purpose-designed housing and specialised dwellings tailored for participants with extreme functional impairment or very high support needs.

Capacity Building Supports

Capacity building supports focus on developing individual independence and life skills:

• Support Coordination and Recovery Coaching: Assistance to implement and manage plan funding through Level 1 (Support Connection), Level 2 (Coordination of Supports), Level 3 (Specialist Support Coordination), and Psychosocial Recovery Coaching for mental health needs.
• Improved Living Arrangements: Support to source suitable housing, navigate tenancy obligations, and maintain leases.
• Social and Community Engagement: Life transition planning, mentoring, peer support, and individual skills development for independent social participation.
• Employment and Education Services: Workplace and functional assessments, employment-related counselling, School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES), and on-the-job support to find and maintain open or supported employment.
• Relationships and Behaviour Support: Specialised positive behaviour support, functional behavioural assessments, development of behaviour support plans, and individual social skills training.
• Health, Wellbeing, and Physical Capacity: Exercise physiology, accredited personal training, and dietetic advice.
• Improved Daily Living and Allied Health Therapies: Therapy services provided by occupational therapists, speech pathologists, physiotherapists, psychologists, social workers, art therapists, and developmental educators, as well as specialised early childhood intervention supports for children under 9 years of age.
• Plan Management and Financial Skills: Plan management services to process claims and pay providers, alongside capacity building to train participants to self-manage their funding.
• Specialised Training and Mentoring: Specialised driver training, assistive technology mentoring, and decision-making or daily budgeting skills.

Disability-Related Health Supports

Direct nursing and clinical health supports can be provided where they directly relate to a participant’s permanent functional impairment. These include community nursing care and ongoing management for conditions involving dysphagia, respiratory health, nutrition, diabetes, continence, wound and pressure care, podiatry, and epilepsy.