Creating your plan

We're updating this guideline with new legislation

Here's what's changed:

• There are new rules about when we can do a plan variation or reassessment.
• The rules make it clear what we need to think about before we do a plan variation or reassessment, and the situations we can change your plan in.
• There are also new rules about when we decide who your plan funding is managed by.
• They give us more information about when we might need to change your plan management type and what we think about before we make that decision.

Please download the guideline for the latest information, while we update the website over the coming weeks.

Creating your plan

We’ll work with you to create your NDIS plan. We’ll speak with you to help us decide what NDIS supports to fund in your plan.

We’ll also talk to you about what informal, community and mainstream supports you have access to and include them in your plan.

Your plan will have a total funding amount. We will call this a 'total budget amount' in your plan. We’ll work with you to decide how your NDIS funding will be managed, and when we’ll create your plan. 

This guideline is about what we think about when we create your plan including the laws and rules we need to follow. 

• When we say 'your plan', we mean your NDIS plan. 
• If you’re aged between 9 and 65 years and are looking for information about community connections, go to Our Guideline – Community connections. 
• If your child is younger than 9 and you’re looking for information about early connections, go to Our Guideline – Early connections. 
• As part of the recent changes to the NDIS laws we are moving towards a new framework for planning. Rules need to be developed for this new framework. We’re working on how and when we’ll introduce these changes. 
  
  Until then, the information in this Our Guideline is about our old framework for planning, which includes the legislation changes we are introducing from now.
  
  All current plans will be known as 'old framework' plans, and we will continue to develop these until all participants have transitioned to the new framework. 

Browse the guideline using the links or download a copy:

• Creating your plan (PDF 373KB)
• Creating your plan (DOCX 113KB)