online workshop

Understanding Short Term Respite in the NDIS

Short Term Respite (formerly known as Short Term Accommodation) is an essential yet often misunderstood part of the NDIS. With October 2025 changes to Operational Guidelines changing who can get funding, what it can be used for and how much is funded, this 2 hour workshop will help you make sense of it all.

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Why take this course?

Short Term Respite (formerly known as Short Term Accommodation) is one of those areas in the NDIS that’s long been confusing. And with the NDIA’s new Operational Guideline now in play, things have shifted again - significantly.

So what does Short Term Respite actually cover under the updated October 2025 rules? How should providers charge for it? When and how is it funded in people’s Plans? How do Funds Flexibility rules apply now? And how can you design, deliver and bill for Short Term Respite in a compliant and ethical way?

This 2 hour workshop is for providers who want to understand the foundations of Short Term Respite, and get across the latest changes so they can confidently design and deliver services that meet participant needs and NDIA expectations.



What you’ll gain

Across 2 hours, we’ll dive into:

  • What is Short Term Respite (STR), anyway?

  • What is and isn’t included in the price cap?

  • What are the NDIA’s absolute no-gos for STR?

  • Is it STR or a holiday – what does the NDIA say? How can you avoid the scrutiny?

  • The new Operational Guideline: how eligibility and funding rules have recently changed

  • The provider market – who delivers STR?

  • Things you need to consider when designing your STR service

  • How to benchmark the cost of your STR service against the price cap



Who’s it for?

  • Frontline Leaders

  • Managers

  • Business Owners

  • Support Coordinators


What's included?

  • 2 hour virtual workshop via Zoom

  • A 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.