NDIS Services
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a new way of providing individualised support for eligible participants. The purpose of the NDIS is to enable NDIS participants and their families to exercise more choice and control regarding the support provided to them.
Our school employs an NDIS Navigator to support our families to get the most out of their child’s NDIS Plan and to coordinate on-site NDIS therapist services. On occasion, parent(s) may ask a Victorian government school to allow an NDIS-funded therapist to provide support or therapy to their child (the student) on school grounds (Request). These Requests are made via a completed Request to provide NDIS therapy on school grounds form (the Request Form).
The Department is committed to supporting NDIS participants, and their families, to obtain optimal benefit from the opportunities offered by the NDIS. Consistent with this commitment, Victorian Government schools are encouraged to accommodate students and their parent(s) exercising choice and control in relation to NDIS supports, where practical to do so.
Our school is committed to supporting NDIS services on our site, where practical. In order for this to occur, there is paperwork that is required to be completed by the NDIS service provider and the student’s parents. This paperwork needs to be endorsed by the principal and then a time for the service to be provided will be negotiated between the service provider and the school.
On occasion, therapists who are not a part of the NDIS may request to access students during school times. On these occasions, other arrangements are made for this to occur.
Useful Information
- NDIS Provider Finder
- School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES)
- NDIS Navigators Parents and Carers Factsheets
