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Develop a social and community participation budget for participants in a shared living arrangement
Guidance in this document is not approved for use unless you view it in PACE.
This article provides guidance for a planner delegate, home and living delegate, liaison officers (HLO/JLO), review officer and planner (non-partnered area) to develop a social and community participation (SCP) budget for a participant in a shared living arrangement.
Recent updates
4 November 2024
Guidance updated to include link to new article Understand supports for participants who need help to move around in shared living arrangements.
Before you start
You have read and understood:
• Our Guideline – Social and recreation supports (external) • Our Guideline – Reasonable and necessary supports (external) • Our Guideline – Supported Independent Living (external) • article Understand social and community participation supports for participants in a
shared living arrangement • article Understand social and community participation supports for participants in a
shared living arrangement - Case examples • article Support Categories • article Understand and update the plan conversation support tool • article Understand supports for participants who can move independently in shared living
arrangements
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living arrangements.
Develop an SCP budget for a participant in a shared living arrangement
Note: If the participant doesn’t live in a shared living arrangement, go to article Understand self-care and community access supports.
All funding decisions must be reasonable and necessary, and must consider each participant’s individual situation. NDIS-funded supports must be reasonable and necessary individually and as a package of supports. Use the plan conversation support tool (PCST) to develop the SCP budget for the participant’s plan. To learn more, go to Understand and update the plan conversation support tool.
To make sure you’re funding the participant’s needs correctly, you need to determine:
• if the participant is receiving supports delivered in a centre or the community, or a
combination of both • whether the supports are individual or shared • if any of the supports fall on public holidays in the plan period.
As a guide, the PCST should provide enough funding to cover the different levels and frequency of support across the week. This will need to be calculated over the plan duration.
Public holiday hours are calculated using the PCST. Irregular supports can’t be used for activities scheduled on public holidays.
Note: the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits (external) (PAPL) helps participants and providers understand how price controls for supports and services work in the NDIS.
Individual, group-based and shared supports
The PCST calculates both individual and shared supports as follows:
• for individual support, calculate the rate at the PAPL maximum rate per hour, multiplied
by the number of hours per week. • for group-based or shared support, calculate the rate at the PAPL maximum rate per
hour, multiplied by hours per week and divided by the number of participants in the group
or sharing the support.
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For Internal Use Only Use the PCST to calculate Centre Capital Costs. To learn more, go to article Understand social and community participation supports for participants in a shared living arrangement – Case examples.
Non-face-to-face costs
Non-face-to-face (NF2F) costs can only be claimed for group-based supports. If the participant needs minimal or partial levels of support in a group-based setting, add up to 2 additional hours a week of SCP support for NF2F costs. For complex levels of support in a group-based setting, add up to 4 additional hours a week of SCP support for NF2F costs. To learn more, go to article Understand social and community participation supports for participants in a shared living arrangement – Case examples.
Duplication of supports
A home and living delegate uses the home and living calculator (HALC) to recommend weekly hours of Other supports. This includes SCP, employment supports and other time away from the shared living arrangement.
Once you’ve determined the amount of SCP hours:
• look at all supports over a 24 hour period. Make sure the participant is supported for the
full 24 hours but not more • look at what’s been provided in the home and living budget and how it compares with
other supports • compare this to the hours of Other supports in the HALC.
If you identify any duplication, for example the participant has supports for more than 24 hours in a day, make the required adjustments to reduce any duplication. This may mean reducing SCP support.
Next steps
- To learn more about calculating SCP supports and view case examples, go to article
Understand social and community participation supports for participants in a shared
living arrangement – Case examples.
- For a:
• Plan Approval case, go to article Change the draft budget.
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Version Brief Description of Change Status 1.0 JC0088 Class 3 approved - New article to | APPROVED | 2024-08-28 JC0075 help you develop an SCP budget for participants in shared living arrangements.
Class 1 approved — update to include link to new article Understand supports for
2.0 ED0024 participants who need help to APPROVED | 2024-10-22 move around in shared living arrangements (article ID: 452218685).
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