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What is the NDIS?
The National Disability Insurance Scheme is Australia's way of funding the everyday and specialist supports that help people living with disability live the life they choose.
A national scheme. Individual plans. Real-life support.
The NDIS is run by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). If you're eligible, you receive an individual plan that includes funding for supports connected to your disability. You then choose providers (like UCCS) to deliver those supports.
Funding is grouped into broad areas — for example Core (daily activities, community participation, transport), Capacity Building (skills, employment, therapy) and Capital (assistive technology, home modifications). Your plan spells out what's funded, for how long and how it's managed.
The NDIS isn't a one-off — it's designed as a lifetime approach. Plans are reviewed regularly so support can grow with you, change as goals shift, and respond as life evolves.
Sensory-friendly spaces to create.
Four ideas at the heart of the scheme.
Choice and control
You decide who supports you, what you work on and how your funding is used — within your plan.
Reasonable & necessary
Funded supports must be linked to your disability and help you pursue your goals.
Lifetime approach
The NDIS is designed to invest early and adjust as life changes, not just respond in a crisis.
Goal-led planning
Your plan starts with your goals — daily, social, learning, work, health and wellbeing.
This is general information only. For the official rules and current details, visit ndis.gov.au or speak with us.
Next: see if the NDIS might be a fit.
A plain-English look at age, residency and disability requirements.