10 Protective Tips: for your next NDIS planning meeting
A checklist for surviving the annual dance with the NDIS.
So you’re headed into another planning meeting…
Planning meetings aren’t always just a polite chat with the NDIA and while it can be a super reassuring and calm experience with someone who just gets it, other times it might feel like a high-stakes game of “justify your child’s existence” dressed up as collaborative decision-making.
The NDIS is changing at an unprecedented pace and we know it feels like a full time job staying on top of what’s changing in the ways NDIS plans are being built.
So here are our ten planning meeting prep tips that can save you from out-of-pocket invoices, unworkable plans, or gods forbid, having to explain to your child why their support hours disappeared because a bureaucrat assumed you’d be on a beach in Fiji.
Avoid booking therapy appointments in the days after your planning meeting.
Imagine if you have an appointment coming up with your physiotherapist, and the NDIA decline to fund physiotherapy in your next NDIS plan. You may end up paying a cancellation fee out of pocket.
Providers shouldn’t have to work for free and I know you don’t need the guilt trip! Wait until the new plan lands before committing to anything non-essential.