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NDIS
Quick Guide: additional requirements within specific states and territories
to complete registration and be compliant to provide supports under the
NDIS (if the business is a sole provider, single discipline or multi-discipline
private practice which offers services to the general public in addition to NDIS
participants).
Grey highlighting = ‘trial only’ – information pending re arrangements for transition.
Additional credentialing
process?
South Australia Additional processes are required if providing some supports in the Professional Registration
Group.
The SA Government views any and all provision of Allied Health Services as specialist.
Given that the application is to become an NDIS provider, providers will by definition be
providing services to people with disability. Ergo: a speech pathologist providing NDIS
funded supports is a specialist disability service.
This applies to organisations providing single discipline supports and sole providers.
Providers will need to apply to the South Australian government to meet the requirements for
the Disability Service Provider Panel (DSPP) within the Department of Communities and
Social Inclusion.
Yes–for all speech pathologists.
Professions registered with
AHPRA are only required to
provide proof of registration.
Tasmania Based on a conversation with the NDIS, it is unlikely that solo, single profession or even
multi-professional providers will be required to undertake the due diligence assessment to
become an NDIS provider of any supports which sit in the professional supports cluster or
the assistive technology and equipment cluster.
The supports which will trigger the requirement for the additional credentialing in Tasmania
are listed on page 15 of the Provider Registration Guide to Suitability.
Unlikely
Victoria If registering to provide specialised positive behaviour support, support plan coordination
or early childhood supports, there are additional credentialing requirements for providers
specialising in services specifically for the support of persons with a disability
within the meaning of the Disability Act 2006 (not including psychosocial or early childhood
intervention supports). Advice from a representative of the Victorian Government agency
managing the quality and safeguarding for the sector is that allied health practices set up
and providing services in the community, including to but not exclusively for people with
disabilities would not be seen as “specialising in services specifically for the support of
persons with a disability”, and therefore would not have to undertake additional credentialing.
No
NSW Providers of the supports identified must comply with the NDIS Rules – rules for registered
providers of supports and agency’s terms of business.
Early Childhood supports providers must:
Undertake third party verification to confirm organisational performance against the NSW
Disability Service Standards or relevant comparable standards such as National Standards
for Disability Services (2013)
Providers of positive behaviour supports or support coordination must undertake a third party
verification to demonstrate compliance with:
• The Disability Inclusion Act 2014 (NSW) and Disability Inclusion Regulation 2014
(NSW),
• All other relevant laws of NSW and Australia,
• Applicable codes of conduct, professional standards or quality assurance
standards, and
• NSW Disability Services Standards (NSW DSS) or relevant comparable standards.
Comparable standards include National Standards for Disability Services,
Attendant Care Industry Standards, Home Care Standards, Victorian Department
of Human Services Standards and Queensland Human Services Quality
Framework.
Yes – if providing Individual or
group multidisciplinary
• Early childhood
interventions
• Positive behavior support
• Support plan coordination
Queensland Advice from a representative of the Queensland Government agency managing the quality
and safeguarding for the sector is that allied health practices set up and providing services
in the community, including to but not exclusively for people with disabilities would not be
seen as specialising in services specifically for the support of persons with a disability and
therefore would not have to undertake additional credentialing.
No – if registering to
provide supports from the
professional registration
groups or assistive
technology group.
Yes – if registering to provide
supports from the Specialist
Disability Registration Group.
ACT Within the ACT only new providers who are registering to provide supports within that sit
within the Specialist Disability Registration Group in the Guide to Suitability are required to
undertake credentialing.
No – if registering to provide
supports from the professional
registration groups or assistive
technology group.
Yes – if registering to provide
supports from the Specialist
Disability Registration Group
Western Australia No information available in the Guide to Suitability Information is currently
unavailable
Northern Territory No information available in the Guide to Suitability Information is currently
unavailable