Advice Support Tool

Theme: Hearing Sub-Theme(s): S47E(d) - certain operations of agencies

References:

NDIS Act 2013 Section 34 1. (a) - (f) and 2.
NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013
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Note: All criteria need to be met for the supports to be funded through the NDIS.

Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports	Is criteria met?	Considerations (including evidence used)
34.1(a) Enabling the participant’s goals and objectives (supports will assist the participant to pursue the goals and objectives in their plan)	☐ Yes →	Has evidence been provided to demonstrate: s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies
redacted
	☐ No →

Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports	Is criteria met?	Considerations (including evidence used)
s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies

34.1(b) Assist the participant’s social and economic participation (supports will assist the participant to undertake activities to facilitate their social and economic participation) | Yes →> | Has evidence been provided to demonstrate:

How s47E(d) will materially assist in helping the participant undertake activities socially and economically s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies
What technology does the participant already own which can be used to improve social and economic participation s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies |

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Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports

Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports	Is criteria met?	Considerations (including evidence used)
34.1(c) Value for money
(supports represents value for money, i.e., the costs of support are reasonable, both in terms of the benefits achieved and the cost of alternative support)
Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 3.1 (a) – (f);
s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies	☐ Yes →	• Is there strong evidence that the support will reduce the cost of funding of supports for the participant in the long term? s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies

Are there comparable support options which would achieve the same outcome at a substantially lower cost? What alternative supports were considered? Is there evidence that the support will substantially improve the life stage outcomes and be of long-term benefit to the participant? Is there evidence that funding support is likely to increase independence and reduce funded support costs in the long-term? Is there evidence the support will increase the participant’s independence and reduce the participant’s need for other kinds of supports? S47E(d)-certain operations of agency

Is there evidence the quoted support cost is comparable “ penpecra cost of same me TE(d) - ce S | ☐ No → | redacted: s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies

34.1(d) Support is effective or beneficial for the participant (supports will be, or are likely to be, effective for desired effect and beneficial for the | ☐ Yes → | s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies

| ☐ No → | redacted: s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies

Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports

Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports	Is criteria met?	Considerations (including evidence used)
participant, having regard to current good practice)
Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 3.2 and 3.3
What are the expected benefits of the support provision?
How will effectiveness of achieved outcome be measured?
When will effectiveness of achieved outcome be achieved?
Are there other supports required to achieve or maximise the reported support outcomes for participant?		s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies
34.1(e) Support coordinates with but does not replace informal support
(funding or provision of supports takes account of what it is reasonable to expect families, carers, informal networks and the community to provide)
Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 3.4	Yes →	s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies
34.1(f) Support is most appropriately funded by the NDIS
(supports are not more appropriately funded or provided through other general service systems or universal service obligations)
Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Schedule 1.	Yes →
No →	Consider if:

The participant resides in housing provided through public housing by the relevant state department, where it is the responsibility of the department to provide accessible housing
If the accommodation is the responsibility of the Justice System and reintegrating the participant into society |

| Criteria for reasonable and necessary Is criteria Considerations (including evidence | supports met? used) | | s47E(d) - certain operations of agencies | | Support will not cause harm O Yes | | (Supports will not be funded if it is likely to | cause harm to the participant or pose a risk | to others, or the support would be contrary to | a law of a jurisdiction) | | Consider NDIS Suppc 2013 Part 5.1 and 5.3

Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports	Is criteria met?	Considerations (including evidence used)
Support is directly related to the participant’s disability
(supports will not be funded under the NDIS if they do not relate to the participant’s disability or are day-to-day expenses or income replacement)
Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 5.1 and 5.2	☐ Yes ——>	Does the participant have hearing loss listed as a disability
☐ No ——>
Support does not duplicate other supports	☐ Yes —->

Criteria for reasonable and necessary supports

(supports do not duplicate other supports delivered under alternative funding through the NDIS such as Information, Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) funding.) Consider NDIS Support for Participant Rules 2013 Part 5.1

Are all of the above criteria met for all supports?

Version Control

Version #	Status	Date	Modified by	Brief Description of Modification
V1.0	Cleared	01/09/2023	LHN531	Production of initial V1.0
V1.0	Cleared	05/09/2023	JIF775	Transferred to Key Advisor Advice Resources repository

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