What are Core Supports, and what is Assistance with Daily Living?
- The Core support budget covers support for people with disability to complete daily living activities (in the home or the community) and work towards their goals.
- Assistance with Daily Living is a support category under the Core support budget.
- Support types you may find under the Assistance with Daily Living support category in your NDIS plan are:
- Assistance with daily personal activities
- Assistance with household tasks
- Assistance in shared living arrangements
- Supported Independent Living (SIL), Short Term Accommodation and Assistance (or respite)
What’s SIL?
Supported Independent Living (SIL) is one type of help or supervision with daily tasks to help you live as independently as possible, while building your skills.
SIL is paid personal support. It includes things like someone to help with personal care tasks or cooking meals. SIL can help build these skills too, so you can be more independent.
SIL is best suited for participants who have high support needs. This means you require a significant amount of help throughout the day.
SIL is support for you at home. You can get SIL if you live in a home with other people. You can also get SIL if you live on your own, but there might be other personal care supports that suit you better.
SIL support doesn’t include rent or other day-to-day expenses like groceries.
Know more about SIL
SIL support is for people aged 18 and over. We have other supports available for children under 18 years.
If you need more information about supports, we fund to help with a child’s disability care needs, have a look at personal care supports.
If you’re 17, and your goal is to move out of home, we may fund support to explore your options. It’s never too early to start thinking about what this might look like for you in the future. If you are thinking about moving within a year or two, it’s a good time to talk to us about your home and living goals. We can start helping you work out the best option for you.
SIL is one of many support options you could get where you live.
There are a few things to talk to your planner about to help you decide if SIL is the best option for you. For example:
- your goals for your potential home and living arrangements
- the support you need to live as independently as possible
- if alternative supports may be a better option (including Individualised Living Options or personal care supports)
- if you have significant support needs that require person-to-person supports
- what support you currently receive
if your planner decides your support meets the reasonable and necessary criteria for SIL (see Is SIL reasonable and necessary for you).
Supports included in SIL
- Support with supervision, safety and security
- Assistance with personal care tasks
- Assistance with capacity building tasks (for example, meal prep and cooking, cleaning, routine development)
- Behaviour support and social skill development
- Administration of medication
- Support for medical appointments
- Community access that is not routine or regular (for example, support to complete personal tasks)
- Support to get to and from community access activities (where this is the participant’s preference)
Supports excluded from SIL
- Cost of groceries
- Rent, board or lodging costs
- Utilities – gas, electricity, water, telephone, internet
- Household budgeting/bill paying activities
- Expenses related to holidays, including travel costs
- Personal care supports while the participant is in hospital
- Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) related costs (such as property maintenance costs, repairs, vacancy costs)
- Ongoing costs and supports for vacancies (which is built into the price limit)
- Regular community access
- Specific funding for staff to attend training for the participant’s support needs (which is built into the price limit)
- Shadow shifts
- Organisational management costs
- Allied Health staff, including those employed by SIL provider
- Vehicle costs
- Temporary Transformation Payment (TTP) pricing
- Justice related supports
- Community supervision orders
- Nursing, medical care and other health related supports
Items covered in other sections of the NDIS Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits (such as transport costs, assistive technology, personal care while in the workplace, plan management, financial intermediary supports, clinical or allied health services)
Group and Centre Based Activities and Groups promote socialisation while offering both worker facilitated and self-directed capacity building activities. Participants are welcome to undertake activities independently within the space, participate in facilitated workshops or a combination of both. All activities are participant directed and only limited to participant’s imaginations.
Program activities include:
- Life Skills development – eg: grocery shopping, cooking, personal care, gardening, household tasks
- Improved Health & Wellbeing – eg: health & wellbeing awareness and education, group fitness activities, walks, swimming, yoga
- Literacy and Numeracy – eg: tailored programs to suit learning ability, money handling, budgeting, reading and writing skills
- Recreational – eg: ten pin bowling, music, dancing, picnics, art and craft
- Community access – eg: library, music works, community events, shopping, museum, art gallery, volunteer groups.
Clients engage in both centre-based and community activities and are encouraged to contribute to weekly activity planning. Programs facilitate practical learning opportunities for life skill development and support clients to explore their personal interests.
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