online workshop

New NDIS Law: Changes To Debt and Spending Compliance Powers

We don’t mean to alarm you, but getting across the new compliance powers related to debt and spending is essential, right now, if you want to avoid compliance action.

Registration

Flexible rescheduling

Change up to 4 hours before.

Why take this course?

The new NDIS Law is here. And some of the changes are effective immediately – including new compliance powers related to debt and spending (gulp). Despite these new compliance measures being incredibly complex (with high stakes), information about how these new powers will work in practice has been vague, patchy or just plain inconsistent. 

Now the transition period is over, the best time to get across these changes was yesterday – the second best time is today – otherwise, you may find yourself staring down at compliance action. While participants have until October 2025 and more flexibility to adapt to these changes, even interpreting what responsibility lies with the provider versus the participant is messy.. 

This 2 hour workshop will prepare you for the new compliance powers – supporting you confidently navigate through compliance risk (and support participants to do the same). You’ll get that much-needed reassurance, preparation and breathe a big old sigh of relief. 


What you’ll gain

Across 2 hours, we’ll dive into:

  • The new compliance powers and how to communicate these with participants

  • Unpacking the context and wording of the new powers – specifically debt provisions, enforced changes to fund management types, and spending on non-NDIS supports

  • Processes currently in place by the NDIS for how the new powers will be executed

  • How these compliance powers interact with existing claims and compliance management

  • How to reduce risk through careful service agreements, claiming, supported decision making and invoicing

  • The difference between compliance activity for providers vs participants

  • How to address the risk of compliance activity, including your options when compliance activity activity does happen



Who’s it for?

  • Plan Managers

  • Support Coordinators

  • NDIS Providers

  • Anybody navigating the NDIS (or supporting a person who is navigating the NDIS)


What’s included?

  • 2 hour virtual workshop via Zoom

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

  • Useful links and resources

  • Certificate of completion

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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.

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Chris Coombes

Chris entered the sector as a support worker 13 years ago. Early on, Chris was working alongside a person who was unnecessarily detained in a prison. The injustice ignited a fire in their belly for a fairer system and drove them to study social policy. Completing a masters from the London School of Economics, Chris gained a global lens to dissect disability policy in Australia.

Chris has since supported the roll-out of the Justice Liaison programme with the NDIA, and worked as a non-legal Appeals Advocate. A side gig as an Independent Expert Reviewer gives Chris hope about a fairer system for NDIS reviews, while writing articles and training brilliant workers with DSC fills Chris' cup.

Chris’ enthusiasm and eagerness to learn from all makes them a valued team member. Chris’s other talents include hide-and-seek and making people feel good about themselves.