online workshop

Funding Periods & Components: What You Need to Know

Effective from 19 May 2025 (that’s now), there are three new terms in the NDIS Act that will fundamentally change how providers do business. This 2 hour workshop unpacks what ‘Funding Periods’, ‘Funding Components’ and ‘Total Funding Amounts’ mean for you.

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Change up to 4 hours before.

Why take this course?

The NDIS Act introduced three new terms that change how funding in a participant’s plan is structured and how it can be used. Under Section 33, from May 19 2025 Plans will be broken down in Funding Periods, Funding Components, and Total Funding Amounts.

But this isn’t just a minor language tweak. These terms matter because they turn our existing ideas of funds flexibility and billing practices on their heads – having flow on effects to financial viability, service planning, continuity of supports, revenue and how providers work with participants to purchase supports within their budget. 

The NDIA is implementing default Funding Periods of 3 months for all supports (except Home & Living supports, that have a default of 1 month). And ALL these new rules are effective for plans built from May 19 (that’s now). 

Join us for this 2 hour informative workshop as we break down what these new terms mean in practice. We’ll explain why they matter for different service types and how you can adapt your quoting, service agreements and service delivery to stay compliant and keep participants at the centre.


What you’ll gain

Over 2 hours, we’ll dive into:

  • Updates to Section 33 of the NDIS Act, effective from 19 May 2025 (we’ll draw straight from the source) 

  • Total Funding Amounts – what they mean for funds flexibility

  • Funding Components – what’s their purpose, how are they structured and how to quote accurately within them

  • Funding Periods – what they are, how they affect funds flexibility and how they’ll look in the Portal and in Plans 

  • How to negotiate with the NDIA for longer funding periods than the default

  • Service delivery – how to apply ALL these changes 

  • Start preparing your operations to comply with and leverage funding period structures


Who’s it for?

  • Frontline Leaders

  • Allied Health Professionals

  • Support Coordinators

  • Plan Managers


What’s included?

  • 2 hour virtual workshop via Zoom

  • Downloadable copy of the slides for you to look back on 

  • Certificate of completion

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Sally Coddington

Sally, our NDIS wonderwoman and 'pocket rocket,' combines humour with a wealth of NDIS knowledge, intellect, and energy. With extensive experience in financial and human services across B2B and B2C sectors, she’s a dynamic trainer, Certified Practicing Marketer, Harvard Alumni and passionate advocate for disability rights.

For over 15 years, she has been a key figure in the disability sector, currently as a Director of Hunter Circles. Sally has served on boards like The Centre for Universal Design, Business Hunter, and Community Disability Alliance Hunter (CDAH), and contributed to the NSW Disability Council. 

Sally's personal experience deepens her professional insights; her daughter Nicky, an NDIS participant for four years, passed away in 2018. This unique blend of experience shapes her understanding of the challenges and opportunities in the NDIS business landscape.

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Rob Woolley

Our very own Woolly Mammoth, pulls up last in the alphabetical rankings but always gets a place on the DSC podium for combining curiosity with smarts. He knows so much about the NDIS it is scary. Rob lives a personal commitment to sharing his knowledge with an endgame of people with disability in control. Combining lived experience of the early childhood intervention pathway with professional experience of the realities of provider life - he has consistently shown the inability to hold down a real job. His roles in the disability sector have covered direct support work, project management, business development, consulting, ILC-funded advocacy roles and owner-operator of a registered and then unregistered provider (but the thing he is best at is being a very present dad). If you want a consultant or trainer in your corner you will be looking high and low to do better than our Rob.