(EI) Check evidence for a decision — Support most appropriately funded by NDIS

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(EI) Check evidence for a decision — Support most appropriately funded by NDIS

This article provides guidance for an access delegate, local area coordinator, early childhood partner or internal review delegate to understand how to:

• review evidence of recommended early intervention supports to consider if they are most appropriately funded by the NDIS
• use this information to support the person to understand the eligibility requirements.

Recent updates August 2023

• Guidance improvement — update to align language to PACE and knowledge consistency check.

Before you start

You have:

• read and understood Our Guideline - Applying to the NDIS in section, How will early intervention help you?
• read article Understand early intervention requirements.

Evidence early intervention supports are most appropriately funded by NDIS

Review evidence of recommended early intervention supports

Before you make an eligibility decision about this early intervention requirement, you must find out if early intervention supports have been recommended by a Treating Professional. You do this by checking the person’s application and evidence.

To make an eligibility decision about this early intervention requirement, you must consider:

• the recommended early intervention supports

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• what is provided by mainstream and community supports
• what is appropriately funded by us or by other services
• our legislation and guidance
• if we have enough evidence to decide or need more.

To learn more, refer to:

• Our Guideline – Mainstream and community supports
• Schedule 1 of the NDIS (Supports for Participants) Rules
• Applied Principles and Tables of Support.

Early intervention requirements are just one of the eligibility requirements. To be eligible for the NDIS under early intervention, the person must meet all the following:

• age requirements
• residence requirements
• early intervention requirements.

Go to article Check evidence for a decision – age and residence requirements.

Next steps

If you are an access delegate:

• To determine eligibility, continue to follow guidance in article Make an access decision.
• To check the timeframes to make a decision, follow guidance in article Check decision – Legislative timeframes.

Article topics and case names – internal use only

Topics

This article relates to the following topics:

• Applying
• Disability-related health supports
• Evidence
• Informal, community, and mainstream supports.

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Case names

You can use this guidance for the:

• Access Request
• Access Decision.

Version control

Version	Amended by	Brief Description of Change	Status	Date
0.1	BTM847	Draft ready for showcase	DRAFT	2022-11-09
0.2	BLOO12	Draft approved by SGP Lead (EL1)	DRAFT	2022-11-10
1.0	EMNO96	Draft approved by Class 3 Director (EL2)	APPROVED	2022-11-10
1.1	JJO192	Class 1 - Cl-applying work package	DRAFT	2023-06-30
		Update knowledge article for PACE national expansion.
1.2	CGT260	Peer review	DRAFT	2023-07-05
		VT Grade Level 8.8
1.3	JJO192	Actioned peer review	DRAFT	2023-07-26
1.4	VFK746	EL1 Review	DRAFT	2023-07-27
1.5	EMN960	EL2 Review — Progress to SD and Partners	DRAFT	2023-07-31
1.6	JJO192	Actioned Peer Review	DRAFT	2023-08-10
1.7	VFK746	EL1 review and progress to EL2 for approval to publish	DRAFT	2023-08-10
2.0	EMN960	EL2 Approval	DRAFT	2023-08-10

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