The NDIS is primarily for people with significant and permanent disabilities. Family carers receive no funding in their own right unless it improves their ability to support a family member with a disability.

When preparing for the NDIS planning meeting, it is important for you as a carer to provide the planner with information about your caring role.

A Carer’s Statement will outline the aspects of the caring role, including (but not limited to):

• their ability to continue to provide support at the current level
• if the carer is able/willing to continue caring in the same capacity and the sustained impact this has on the carer
• any information about the carer and family life that the carer wants the planner to know – https://www.ndis.gov.au/understanding/families-and-carers

A Carer checklist and template of a carer’s statement can be located on the Carers Australia website. http://www.carersaustralia.com.au/ndis-and-carers/support-for-families-and-carers/

For more information regarding the NDIS visit:

https://www.ndis.gov.au

https://www.carersaustralia.com.au/ndis-and-carers/ndis-glossary/