Core Supports enable participants to complete daily life tasks and achieve their goals, including:
⦁ Assistance with daily living: such as bathing, dressing, meal preparation, medication assistance
⦁ Domestic support including assistance with cleaning, gardening, shopping and attending personal appointments.
⦁ Consumables: assisting participants to purchase items to use everyday such as incontinence aids and nutrition products.
⦁ Assistance with social and community participation: supporting participants to take part in social or recreational activities within their communities. This can also provide the opportunity for a supported holiday.
Grouping Core Supports in four categories of support:
A. Consumables (e.g. purchasing everyday use items such as continence aids)
B. Daily Activities (e.g. assistance with self-care activities during the day or evening)
C. Assistance with Social and Community Participation (e.g. supports to enable you to engage in social or recreational activities)
D. Transport (e.g. if you are unable to use public transport because of your disability).
Generally Core Support funds can be allocated against one of support category to purchase supports under another support category. This can be easily performed unless funds have been set aside for specific purpose such as periodic payments for transport, or any Core budget line item type below:
⦁ Compensation
⦁ Specialised Disability Accommodation i.e. accommodation for participants who require specialist housing solutions due to significant functional impairment and/or very high support needs
⦁ In-kind e.g. Government pre-paid supports such as school transport or some therapy supports
⦁ Stated item (including Quotes for certain items) e.g. assistance in a shared living arrangement.
In these cases the funds within a category must only be used for that specific purpose. For details about your Core supports please refer to your NDIS plan.
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