Know your rights
As an NDIS Self Manager, it is important you know your rights and responsibilities.
This section will lay it all out for you. Also included here is important information on where to get advice if you directly engage your support workers (as contractors or employees).
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You CAN Ask That! Self Manager Hub Webinar | Choice and control | Engaging a service provider | Employing people | Supported decision making | Managing supports
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You CAN ask that! Q & A with Sam Paior and Dr George. Australia’s leading self-management gurus take on your questions! Can I hire my friend/family member to support me? What’s a parent’s responsibility vs the role of the NDIS? Can I take a holiday with my NDIS funding? Can self management be taken away from me? read more
| Choice and control | Engaging a service provider | Employing people | Supported decision making | Managing supports
| NDIS Fund Management | Premium Content | Build your team | Rules for hiring | Get creative | What can I buy? | News | Know your rights
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NDIS Self-Management Audits | NDIS | Reporting to government bodies
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This is a recording of a workshop for self managers to hear directly from the NDIA about NDIS self-management audits. Find out what's involved and how to be prepared in case you are audited. read more
| NDIS | Reporting to government bodies
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Unpacking the New Self Management Guide with the NDIA | Choice and control | NDIS | Finding supports
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| Choice and control | NDIS | Finding supports
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What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disability? | Human rights
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Disability Rights in Real Life | Human rights
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Your consumer rights | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Consumer rights
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What strategies are in place to support NDIS participants to make a complaint? | Engaging a service provider | Complaints | Consumer rights
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| Engaging a service provider | Complaints | Consumer rights
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What is Dignity of Risk and why does it matter? | Supported decision making
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What is a Disability Advocate? | Supports
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Ways to be heard when the NDIS isn’t working for you | Human rights | Complaints | Consumer rights
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| Human rights | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Ways the person/family can review their plan and support arrangements | NDIS meetings | General NDIS
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Translating and Interpreting Services | Supports | General NDIS
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| Phone number | Webpage | Community languages
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| Supports | General NDIS
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Top tips for making complaints as a Consumer | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Top tips for entering contracts | Choice and control | Contracts and legal
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Top tips for avoiding scams | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Consumer rights
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The FACTS about the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability | Contracts and legal | Royal commission | Reporting to government bodies
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| Contracts and legal | Royal commission | Reporting to government bodies
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Talkin’ Together: Consumer rights information: co-designed! | Contracts and legal | Consumer rights
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Smart Shopping with Caesy and Reece | Consumer rights
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Service Agreements – A guide for NDIS participants engaging with providers | Engaging a service provider | Contracts and legal
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| Engaging a service provider | Contracts and legal
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PAYG withholding tax | Recordkeeping | Employing people | Reporting to government bodies
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| Recordkeeping | Employing people | Reporting to government bodies
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NDIS AAT decision digest | General NDIS
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| General NDIS
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National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 | Contracts and legal
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Keeping employment and contractor records | Recordkeeping | Employing people
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| Recordkeeping | Employing people
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It’s my Home | Choice and control | My home
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Is All Choice Good? Supporting choices that lead to success | Choice and control | Blue sky dreaming | Supported decision making
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| Choice and control | Blue sky dreaming | Supported decision making
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Inquiry Into Disability Care and Support (2011) | General NDIS
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| General NDIS
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How do I create an NDIS service agreement ? | Service agreements
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Find advocacy in your area | Supports
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| Supports
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Emergency and Crisis | Supports | Community
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| Supports | Community
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Disability Royal Commission Legal Service- NSW | Contracts and legal | Royal commission
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| Contracts and legal | Royal commission
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Disability legal and advocacy services | Finding supports | Contracts and legal
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| Directory
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| Finding supports | Contracts and legal
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Consumers with disability – where to go for advice or complaints | Complaints | Consumer rights
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| Complaints | Consumer rights
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Consumers with disabilities | What can I buy? | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Consumer rights
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| Online learning
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| What can I buy? | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Consumer rights
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Consumer rights – Tasmania | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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| Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Consumer Rights- Northern Territory | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Consumer Rights South Australia | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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| Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Consumer Rights and complaints Queensland | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Consumer Rights and complaints – Australian Capital Territory | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Consumer complaints- Western Australia | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Consumer Complaints Victoria | Things: Consumables and assistive technology | Complaints | Consumer rights
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Claiming your right to risk when you have a disability | Creative solutions | Blue sky dreaming | Human rights
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| Creative solutions | Blue sky dreaming | Human rights
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Bullying and harassment in the workplace | Employing people | Hiring a contractor | Contracts and legal
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| Employing people | Hiring a contractor | Contracts and legal
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Australian Centre for Disability Law | Contracts and legal
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