A Participant’s NDIS Plan has a defined start and end date – generally anywhere between 3 and 36 month period according to NDIA – and offers support toward achieving their goals. Sometimes however, a review might be required prior to the end of the Plan period, this is called an unscheduled Plan Review. Under normal circumstances, the process for developing a new plan is simply called a scheduled Plan review, periodic review or anniversary review and are undertaken by either the NDIA or the Partners in the community (LAC or ECEI). But let’s look more closely at unscheduled Plan reviews… To start with, a participant has the right to ask for a review of decisions made by the NDIA at any time. The type of review conducted will depend on the reasons for review and the circumstances in which the review is undertaken. Essentially this means that the manner in which your review is undertaken depends on what you’d like to review. As a guide, The Review of Decisions Operational Guideline (found here), lists which decisions can be reviewed – to save you some time, the site states that “The majority of decisions made by the NDIA under the NDIS … Continue reading Unscheduled Plan Reviews and NDIA Rights