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EC: PEC - Core - Equipment and Consumables
Guidance in this document is not approved for use unless you view it in PACE.
This article provides guidance for early childhood partners and planner delegates on:
• how to complete the Personal and Environmental Circumstances (PEC) equipment and
consumables section for children younger than 7
• how to consider equipment and home modifications
• how to consider consumable products.
You must consider the role you deliver to support a successful completion of the PEC so that the Typical Support Package (TSP) best reflects the child and their family’s actual circumstances and need.
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Before you start
You have read and understood:
• Our Guidelines – Assistive technology
• Our Guidelines - Disability-related health supports
• Our Guidelines – Home modifications
• Would we fund it - Consumables
How to complete equipment and consumables questions in the PEC case for children younger than 7
The responses for the PEC case capture information about home modification, equipment and consumable supports that a child may need in their plan. It is important that the questions are answered in relation to the child’s developmental delay or
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For Internal Use Only disability related support needs and their age, taking into account what supports would be considered reasonable and necessary.
How to consider equipment
The Equipment questions capture any assistive technology that a child may require in their plan, including supports to help a child manage their disability related health condition. It includes low-cost, mid-cost or high-cost assistive technology items, as well as home or vehicle modifications a child may need related to their developmental delay or disability. Please note, some disability-related health supports are funded through the healthcare system and may not meet the reasonable and necessary criteria of the NDIS.
Consider evidence for:
• Any equipment a child is currently using and any identified new or replacement items.
• Any home modifications required to make the home environment more accessible for the
child.
• Maintenance and repairs for current equipment items and for rental and/or trial of new
equipment that may be required. It is important that current equipment is captured
alongside any new equipment as a child grows and support needs change. Please note,
in order to capture information regarding repairs, maintenance, rental or trial, the
question ‘Is NDIS funding required for the following?’ must be answered as yes.
• The need for hours to assess, find and set up for all low-cost, mid-cost or high-cost
equipment recorded.
How to consider consumable products
The Consumable questions capture the items a child uses regularly to help them with a condition which relates to their disability. Consumable products may include:
• Dysphagia support for children who have trouble eating, drinking or swallowing such as
thickeners.
• Continence supports such as nappies, pads, bedding and catheterisation products.
• Nutrition support such as tubing, tape, formula for children who require Home Enteral
Nutrition (HEN) support.
• Other supports such as oxygen tubes, wound and pressure care products and seizure
monitors.
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For Internal Use Only Continence consumable products
Evidence is required to demonstrate that the support is related to a child’s developmental delay or disability.
Continence products such as nappies are generally not funded for children under the age of 5 years and therefore not recorded in the PEC questions. However, there are exceptional circumstances where items may need to be considered, such as for children with a disability- related health condition resulting in a requirement for higher cost continence needs.
Where continence products are identified a continence assessment must be funded.
Consider the following when recording information:
Regular persistent night- Day time and night-time Occasional night-time Age time incontinence. Incontinence. Consider: incontinence. Consider: Consider:
Age Parental responsibility Parental responsibility Parental responsibility 4
Funding consumables Parental responsibility Funding consumables Age (e.g., nappies), AT and Fund continence (e.g., nappies), AT and 5 continence assessment assessment continence assessment
Funding consumables Funding consumables Funding consumables Age (e.g., nappies), AT and (e.g., nappies), AT and (e.g. nappies), AT and 6 - 8 continence assessment continence assessment continence assessment
Table 1 – Equipment and consumables
The table provides examples of how you may answer the free text fields in the PEC equipment and consumable questions. Describe the child’s support needs for each relevant support area. If the information is available in a report, add the name, profession, date of report/s. Reports must be uploaded into PACE.
The free text fields have character limits. If more space is required, add the information to an ‘internal note’ in the Activity log. Please use the following table as a guide only.
PEC questions Examples for free text fields
Are low-cost assistive Communication: technology supports required Mary has limited communication and is unable to effectively or likely to be required in the communicate with others. She requires a Pragmatic next 12 months? Organisation Dynamic Display (PODD) book to assist with
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For Internal Use Only her daily communication. Refer to report: Speech Pathologist - Tim Bry. Report date: 12/09/2023
Bathing: Are mid to high-cost assistive Jack has delays in his physical development and is unable technology supports required to sit upright in the bath. A bathing chair will support his or likely to be required in the independence with this task. next 12 months? Refer to AT assessment: OT - Jim Davies. Report date: 18/12/2023.
Does the child need any Continence, please specify consumable products or Gerald is currently unable to achieve day and night-time supports because of their continence due to delays associated with his disability. developmental delay or Refer to report: OT – Betty White. Report date 1/11/2023. disability? Gerald’s dad reports that he uses 8 nappies per day.
Is NDIS funding required to Mobility: assess, find and set up Leila is unable to mobilise independently and requires assistive technology assessment to identify an appropriate manual wheelchair supports? and walker.
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